Images on this page were provided by RetroSpector78 on YouTube - thank you for giving me permission to use these! All images (except the first one) are stills from his two videos on the 950N.
Ascentia 950N with the rare high-end 11.8" LCD option.
Ascentia 950N with 10.4" TFT LCD.
Left side, this one having a branding etched into it.
Rear side.
Right side, with the unit's floppy drive (Panasonic), PC Card slots, IR, and audio jacks.
Bottom of the 950N.
BIOS POST screen.
Custom AST wallpaper.
Plastic structural failure around the display hinges, a typical failure on laptops from the 1990s. This will eventually affect every 950N.
Base half of the unit.
Keyboard lifted. From left to right: Battery bay, hard drive bay, floppy disk drive.
LCD assembly and keyboard surround removed.
Both parts removed.
Ascentia 950N motherboard, top view.
Ascentia 950N motherboard, bottom view.
Bottom side of the PCMCIA sub-board, which also includes the 950N's Vibra 16 sound chip. Note the real Yamaha OPL chip sitting above the main Creative chip.
Sub-Board, includes the CMOS battery, power button (contact pad below the battery), LEDs, and the speaker.
CPU daughtercard, side facing the motherboard. The 950N uses a special mobile Pentium. The CPU itself is soldered. You need to find another full daughtercard in order to upgrade.
Side of the CPU card facing up. The card goes under the door above the center of the keyboard. This is the side where the heat sink is attached. The 950N's heatsink uses a copper heat pipe, but according to AST's technical bulletins, 950Ns still had overheating issues.
Keyboard unit.
VARTA 6-cell battery using V110H cells. This battery is used to keep the laptop alive in suspend mode while the main battery is swapped to a spare. This battery is extremely likely to leak and should be removed from any 950N.
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