Miltope msd ste/ice sport an/usm-95

[CARNAC]

Wondering if anyone has any experience with these?

How hard would it be to obtain a hard drive (I think they're special dimensions or something) and upgrade the internals?

Are they easy to work on and if I take one apart, is there anything special I need to avoid / watch out for?

Any manuals out there for digging into these?

 

[Suprman]

The MSD v2 laptop style is a better option. Takes a special caddy with ice laptop size drive. I think the sport uses the same drive just a different carrier/caddy. Unless you are running diag on something electronic like a1 Lmtv there isn't too much you can do with the computer vs a multimeter. I have an otc handheld code reader that's quick and easy to use compared to the MSD.

 

[CARNAC]

Naw, it was cheap and it has the hard drive and batteries appear to hold a good charge. I want to know if upgrading the RAM or any of that other computer geek stuff is possible. I know the hard drive caddy is special but the connection I think is standard. Old and slow but wondering if it can be improved knowing that it will never become a super computer.

 

[Suprman]

I opened an older MSD v2 there wasn't anything upgrade able. It was very well made. Took quite a bit to get it apart. Not sure if it would have all gone back together without a lot of work and luck. What operating system does yours run? If it has USB port I may be able to load the MSD os and base diag programs on it. Is there a bios setting where you can specify boot order?

 

[CARNAC]

Actually I think everything is still there. Since I seriously doubt it will work on an MB, I guess the diagnostics are immaterial.

 

[papakb]

Hi Carnac, I've got a couple of the Miltope PSM80s that I re-hard drived with an adapter I made up. The problem that I had after re-loading an operating system was the unit wouldn't recognise and mouse attached to it even though I was able to use the built in trackpad during the reload. Very strange. I tried serial mouses and some ps2 mouses but nothing worked. I'm about ready to dump both of them and let someone else figure them out. I have more than enough projects in the mill to keep me busy and don't need either one of these computers.

Kurt