Is there an option to set your own memory divisor in the BIOS? (e.g. turning off memory timings "By SPD") If there is I don't see it. There's a memory controller freq setting that is only present with certain CPUs. For mine, it's not available, so I don't know what it does. I was thinking since tha...

garacs1 wrote:Have you noticed any power consumption reduction switching from WinXP to Linux? Which distro are you using?

I haven't tested under Linux yet. I'm using Ubuntu.

I went back to Linux on this machine, and I'm using a 266x compact flash card. Linux works better on CF than WIndows does. It's plenty responsive for what I'm going to use it for.

I really like this machine. I can't hear it at all, and it's faster than I anticipated.

The 8400 is undervolted. At 1.0V it failed prime95 after a few minutes. Ran 1.05V for a couple hours, so that's what I'm sticking with. The 6750 is near stock voltage, but only because it's over-clocked. I had less luck undervolting that one than others did.

I just swapped out a modestly over-clocked E6750 (3.0 GHz 375x8, 1.325V) for an E8400 clocked the same (3.0 GHz 375x8, 1.05V). Lower voltage, same clock (note non-standard), but no idle power savings. Processor load power dropped 21W, though. I also did some graphics tests and found 12-14W improveme...

E8400 @ 3.0 GHz (375x8, 1.05V)(note non-standard clock) Ninja rev B, fanless Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 MSI nVidia 8600GT 512M, fanless WD GP 500G HDD Gigabyte i-RAM w/ 4 x 0.5G DDR 400 M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 Samsung DL DVD burner Antec Sonata, Nexus 120mm, Sparkle 250W 80...

I just built a diskless system using Gigabyte's 780 board and a 4450E: AMD X2 4450E Ninja B, fanless Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G integrated graphics, no graphics card G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 Addonics SATA compact flash adapter w/16G 133x card no hard drive no optical drive Antec NSK-1300 Nexu...

AMD X2 4450E @ 2.0 GHz (undervolted, slightly underclocked) Ninja B, fanless Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G integrated graphics, no graphics card G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 Addonics SATA compact flash adapter w/16G 133x card no hard drive no optical drive Antec NSK-1300 Nexus 120mm pico PSU 120 w/1...

AMD X2 4450e (AM2) stock - 1.25V

Minimum: 1.0 GHz @ 0.825 V set in BIOS, reported by cpu-z: 0.832 idle, 0.832 load
Stock: 2.3 GHz @ 1.025 V set in BIOS, reported by cpu-z: 1.04 idle, 1.056 load
Prefered: 2.0 GHz (200x10) @ 0.95 V set in BIOS, reported by cpu-z: 0.96 idle, 0.976 load

Is it possible to move the installation over to a flashdisk? You see I spent two weeks removing crapware and getting a usable setup on the hdd. I've not tried it, but I don't see why something like Micronis Migrate Easy wouldn't work. That's what I use to transition to new hard drives every time I ...

I found out the hard way, that there's a setting in my BIOS for determining "HD drive" priority for booting. This is separate from the normal "Boot device priority" setting and the thing gets reset to default if you disconnect your boot drive or forget to connect the power cable. So, I thought I wa...

I have an Addonics SATA CF adapter. I've installed both Ubuntu Linux and WinXP to 133x cards and found that Linux runs much better from these things. It took hours to install Windows and hours to install the motherboard drivers and utilities. Probably six hours to do those two installs, and I haven'...

Thanks, Plekto. That does seem to be what's happening. My objective was to have one IDE compact flash adapter (plugged into the MB) with the system drive and a SATA compact flash adapter in a PCI slot. I thought I'd install the OS with an IDE CDROM so I wouldn't have to pull the SATA drive from my m...

Not sure what I did but I got this to boot, then plugged in the compact flash card (now SATA), and I installed Ubuntu on a compact flash card and can now boot from that reliably. I'm afraid to touch the boot order. I'll worry about that next time I need to boot from CDROM. I'd also like to move the ...

E6750 @ 3.0 GHz (375x8, 1.325V) Ninja rev B, fanless Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L G.Skill 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 MSI nVidia 8600GT 512M, fanless WD 160 GB HDD Gigabyte i-RAM w/ 4 x 0.5G DDR 400 M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 Samsung DL DVD burner Antec Sonata, tricool 120mm, 380W PSU (old) the Ninja's 120mm Scyth...

Reset CMOS again. Back to the original problem: won't post. No way, no how.

The boot order isn't working. This board will attempt to boot from *anything but* my CD-ROM, even with the following boot order specified in BIOS: First Boot Device [CDROM] Second Boot Device [Disabled] Third Boot Device [Disabled] I have an Ubuntu Live-CD in the CD-ROM drive. If I have no other boo...

Same thing happens with a SATA compact flash adapter.

How does one connect an unformatted drive to this damned thing?

Setting boot order is apparently not enough. I removed everything but the CD-ROM from the boot order and now it gets further. It gets to "verifying dmi pool data" and hangs. The compact flash card is recognized as "TRANSCEND" as Master, but of course it has no operating system on it yet. That's why ...

With a compact flash IDE adapter plugged into the IDE header I get a beep and the energystar screen and then the screen goes blank. If I hit DEL fast enough before it goes blank it says "preparing to enter setup" and then the screen goes blank.

Bad IDE controller?

It boots with a SATA CD-ROM. Bad IDE controller? I ran the memory test that's on the Ubuntu disc and that seems to be okay. Ubuntu also runs. I'll try installing it when I get my compact flash IDE adapter, but that's going to require that IDE controller to work. Order status says man in brown unifor...

I can stop any time I want.

Why would you need a page file with 4 GB of RAM? I've turned it off with only 2 GB in the system. It doesn't seem to cause any trouble. I should try that. Windows seems to swap out anything that is inactive, even if it doesn't need to. Leave Mozilla alone for a few minutes and when you bring it bac...

With an IDE CD-ROM connected with an Ubuntu live-cd loaded I get the turn-on clack and the CD-ROM spins up but I get no beep and nothing on screen. Tried resetting CMOS and still nothing. Disconnected CD-ROM and reset CMOS and I get my beep and can get BIOS.

Yep, that's what I'm looking for. Thanks!

I put a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H in a case, put in an Athlon 4450E and 2 sticks of RAM, and hooked up everything I could except a boot device, which I don't have yet. I just wanted to see if I could get BIOS up. Here's what happens... When I power on the system the system fan spins up (there is no CPU...

Somewhere I've seen a PCI slot bracket to attach the jack for the picoPSU, but I can't find it now. It's just a PCI slot thingy with a hole in it. Anyone know where I might find one?

Is the 1300 / 1380 really that bad for noise and other? When I first started this crusade I though it was perfect. I don't know that it is bad at all, but I do know the power supply is located such that I likely can't use a fanless CPU cooler, so I'm planning to have to remove it. I chose the case,...

AuraAllan wrote:First: @ amyhughes .......... I hope its okay were doing this in your thread.

Please do

Your requirements are almost exactly like mine. I fretted over this for a week and concluded there were no good solutions. In fact, I got so tired of going back and forth that I wrote up a table of deficiencies in every possibility, to make them easier to compare. Here it is... eee pc (seems to run ...