INTEL D945GCLF, Atom 230 (1.6 GHz), i945GC out now - compatability?

[totallymaxed]

Hey, totallymaxed , do you have any news about your testing with this board. Any confirmation what works and what doesn't.
We would all apreciate to know more about your work. Thanks
cheers
Roberto

Roberto,

I am trying to get an Asus Eee Box out of my supplier for Testing. They are the first guys in town to actually have stock on it. So right now they are about 150$ overpriced. I have shown them several web-sites with the prices quoted at 269 - 299 but they won't budge. Heck they would not even show me the box yesterday when I was in there. I finally got to see one hooked to the back of a 15" Lg monitor that they are using as there POS machine for the store. I hope to get one out of them this week to play with. It has all the specs of the above board you mention, and they are so tiny, they are going to make a perfect md if they work ok. I will report back when I have one in my hands. I hope that is this week.

rgds,

Dave

Well based on our experience with the Intel D945GCLF I would expect the Asus Eee Box to perform at least as well graphically.

Andrew

[bulek]

Hey, totallymaxed , do you have any news about your testing with this board. Any confirmation what works and what doesn't.
We would all apreciate to know more about your work. Thanks
cheers
Roberto

So far testing looks very promising on the D945GCLF. The AVwizard needs some changes to configure the GMA950 correctly but thats no big deal.

Video performance under UI2 + Overlay is excellent.

All the best

Andrew

Hi,

I've purchased mobo and setup small PC with it... But have all sorts of problems - I'd kindly ask if you can reveal your tricks to get this board working ok...

- I can't poweroff properly (have already tried noapic noacpi that usually help)...
- I can reliably run only UI1 (ui2 with transparency gives me a lot of flashing, UI without transparency freezes after few minutes)...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

[colinjones]

Bulek - i believe I have read that the Intel 945 chipset causes the photo screen saver to crash the machine and you can resolve this by disabling the pss (I assume you just use the disable button in the DCE device)

Certainly my Dell laptop uses that chipset and froze after a few minutes each time (I haven't tried the pss solution tho)