mobile PIII in a desktop?

[8lack8rain]

Has anyone had any luck running a mobile PIII in a desktop? The chips apear to be different sockets. But only because, from the looks of it, intel 'turned' the actual (direction of the) silicon . I did google this but didn't find anything. My first thought is that there is a different pin-out (due to orientation) and that the cpu id will not be recognized by a desktop bios. Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[widefault]

If I remember right, Mobile PIIIs are 478 pin chips, BUT not socket 478 or Socket M or any of the newer variants.

At one time I remember seeing an adapter to run mobile PIIIs on socket 370 boards, but that was a few years back. Powerleap had it, but I don't know if they were ever really available.