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Your picture pretty much wraps up the conclusions or a compendium of the 19 or so replies already posted, Guyfang has given you the single best reply, get in touch with Peter at Inova tech .. the board you are showing is a TANO board, tano is a smaller offshoot of mcii and acts as a or did act as a sole source supplier for these CIMs and is not readily available for any other purpose and as was covered in a 'overview' of the contracting history i offered somewhere in this topic. What you have now is a rather large unwieldy door stop. These CIM's the near exclusive propitiatory devices as well the near exclusive use of SMD's make repair near impossible or at the least impracticable ..last time, if it can be recovered Peter is your guy, but he has the learning curve already under his belt, so he does it for a price, i have no clue what that might be. But remember these CIMs are old outdated and well past the life expectancy, the OS's alone are hard to support, the core processors even more so, the small capacitors and ss disk. Peter will share this knowledge with you as a caution he has learned from direct experiences. And the real heart of it is, no reasonable person will offer you any warranty, because for every reason i have just listed that are all beyond engineering and tech support, repairing these units is the classic example of "taillight warranty".
A yardstick we so often like to use here is operating hours or the hour meter reading, that means absolutely nothing in these CIM feature sets, every part of the CIM is driven by age and technology advancement. MCII started making the CIM sets in 1999 early 2000 last CIM sets in 2012, how many of us here are using a near 9 year old or older computer with a fully supportable OS
We have become spoiled here is several ways with the TQG sets, near all analog and many many workarounds have been offered and the users here are always amazing me at the most simple and trick fix's they find for solutions when parts are not available or too expensive. Then you toss in a Klopp who is very clearly agile and qualified and LID who has the sheet-metal all covered and hell, the TQG sets will be running lots of life cycles around the CIM feature sets, granted nowhere as trick, but trick is as trick does, therein comes the awkward door stop i mentioned earlier..
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