Look what I found .......thinking Carputer...give me your ideas....please!

[DaMaN]

IBM SurePOS (Point Of Sales)Touch Screen Workstation



Processor:
400 MHz AMD-K6-2 ® socketed processor or faster

Ram: [64MB Installed] Max: 512MB 2X256

Video memory:
2, 4 or 8 MB UMA [4MB onboard on this unit]

Maximum colors:
16 million

Hard disk drive:
10.1 GB (or larger) 3.5” IDE

Floppy drive:
1.44 MB (optional) None present

Ports:
Customer display, video (VGA), RS232-serial (3), USB (2), parallel, external floppy,MSR, PS/2 keyboard / PC mouse, cash drawer (2), Ethernet

Uses Touchscreen technology (Kinda hard to use with my stubby fingers) Been using the stylus from my Pocket PC with no issues .

Advice needed & problems:

What's the MAX AMD CPU speed for an AMD K6-2 Socket CPU?

Is this probably PC100 memory?

What can i do to get sound? I have no sound ports or speaker Jacks. I do have 2XUSB ports.

I have successfully loaded Windows 2000 with no issues and it recognizes a USB keyboard and Mouse

It has a PC Card slot interface on the side.

I was thinking of making it a Carputer for mp3's or DivX movies. Suggestions needed.

[Pugsley]

its a single use computer... its a POS and thats what it was built to do... you try and do annyting else with it, or should i say try and use it like a normal PC and youd be wasting your time.

[DaMaN]

it boots to windows and i can browse the net and email with no Issue. would it be any use for a mp3 server for a carputer system? i just wonder how to get sound using a USb connection? Any ideas folks?


i thought the DivX idea was a bit fetched but not so much for mp3's.

[DaMaN]

Anybody use one of these before?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2784651489&category=3701

[FlyingPenguin]

How much they selling for and where?

All those POS systems run regular Windows with custom POS software. I know - I maintain a lot of them for customers.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind one as a livingroom MP3 player. The touchscreen is ideal.

Creative makes several quality USB sound cards designed for lappies. Here:

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/MP3+/

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/Audigy2NX/

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/extigy/

Divx would be a lost cause on that slow a CPU, but MP3's would be no problem.

K6-2 I think only went up to 450Mhz - MAYBE 500. Plus you need to be able to change the clock speed on the mobo. On K6 mobos it was usually jumpers but some later mobos used soft BIOS settings.

The K6-2 400 should be adequate for playing MP3s and any upgrade wouldn't make much of a difference. Depends on the software. I've played MP3s on old P-233 systems but if I use Winamp's crossfade plugin it'll stutter.

I'd recommend a very clean Win98 install (don't install any of the background crap like the stupid web server, Desktop themes, etc) and then use TweakUI to disable IE enhancements. Turn off HTML in Explorer windows and you basically have a very fast Win98.

Win2K would be even better but you need more memory.

[eGoCeNTRoNiX]

Up to 575mhz w/an OC it was a 450 stock. I'm also slightly interested in the cost of these for the same purpose to be used soley as an in car MP3 player. The links FP provided are identical to what I was giong to recommend. GL eGo

[pherako]

k6-2's went up to 550 mhz. i had one, but had to downclock to 400 b/c mobo was being a biatch. ps, setting the jumper on one of those boards for the multiplier to 2x actually makes it 6x... ;-) (i lowered the fsb)

[Viper_RJ]

this well explain in simple diagram how much u can o/c that processor

http://www.hardware.earthweb.com/chips/ ... php/603051

[The_Frapster]

I have a pair of jheadphones which are usb, so I can use them when I select a sound device, or my on-board sound when I go to the sound setting in my control panel. Only thing I've noticed is that when the cpu gets bogged down I loose the sound sometimes.

Not sure if this will become a problem for you or not though. I think you can have the mp3 player buffer quite a bit before it plays and that will cut down on any loose of sound from the cpu being overtasked.