I have a few mother boards that have gold fingers on them. Is it allowed to trim them?

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I want something in return.

Yes you can trim that connector off (carefully).

Now your turn, what is it from.

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Generally such boards are designed as a self contained plugin for a server or, older, minicomputer systems.
This isn’t fitting that. This is lay out like a mid-range laptop board meaning with a connector it would be for an embedded system.
Except it’s not. The vertical quarter sas ports kill emdeded. They use SATA but that’s a sas controller on the board.
The stacked compact ram sockets also point to something other than embedded. There’s ram chips on the board so why need ram modules as well?
You have usb 2… AND idx parallel, and analogue serial with a dedicated ADC.
Analogue and digital audio. No port but a cable header for HDMI1 or DVI-D
An RGB chip for analogue output.
The shielded section my guess is Ethernet or tp ports.

So my guess is an aftermarket or high level cable/media box, a boutique laptop, or some really messed up embedded platform.
The “fingers” line up to standard 1841 port but I can tell by the tracing leading to two capacitors they’re pumping power over generally bare contacts.

So: what is it.

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Honestly I have no idea lol. Tech has never been my strongsuit but I'm learning a bit. All the stuff I'm tearing down now was handed over to my scrapyard by an office of an airline from my airport which has been being remodeled and expanded. Alot of Veriphone equipment and linked Dell optiplexs along with other equipment that I have no idea what it is. Most everything is marked broken, retired, or destroy

Some of the equipment has already been partially destroyed. Some intact some as just random boards along with smashed laptops and drilled harddrives

Honestly, and truely humbly, I rarely get stumped. Maybe 5 times total in the last 8-some years using boardsort.

Can you post the back. I have zero clue what this board is. And it’s painful to me.

I’m trying to find some sort of id code or serial number I can look up in my database

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Yep here you go lost. Am i correct in thinking its a metal socket that has had the metal removed from the front of the board? It was one of the broken up devices. I have two of the same board.

In the coming days I'll be posting some interesting boards. Oscar tells me high peripheral on most even though the surface is 90% covered in chips and all connections are gold

You need to remove the base bracket from the motherboard.
No that’s a standard socket.

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interesting the only thing I’m finding is a digital sign company

Don’t know for sure, but that makes sense for having such a heavy heat sink bracket

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I'm guessing the board is from an older gas pump. That might explain the idx parallel, analogue serial, and shielded Ethernet.

Maybe, that would also explain the digital video output for a display screen and LCD pump price counters

I was tentatively thinking something along the lines of a vending machine myself

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