LMCE on Dell SX270

[Elitoh]

I have this little dell. Its a P4 2.8 with 2 gigs of ram and 20gig hd. It uses the 865g Intel GMA. It installs successfully and goes through the motions of setting up the mce. A few questions. is there any way that I can use the UI2 with out alpha blending, or is the vdo card too much of a POS? If I turn off DHCP and disable the router I cant get in to the admin page from any computer except the core. I can ping it and get replies but no admin page from anywhere else. I also use the gyration remote from Gyration and not the FIIRE remote, does the mod work pretty good? Any replies would be very helpful thanks everyone.

[Elitoh]

Also have any of you hooked up a digital cable scientific atlanta hd box via the usb port or firewire port and got any signals or anything?

[MANDINGO]

I have 2 of them that i use for MDs since they are so quiet as far as the ui2 thats a no the card cant handle it i just use the basic, still rocks for a little machine though

[Elitoh]

what are your settings on that little guy?

[MANDINGO]

First Things first you have to flash to the lastest bios to get the pxe boot feature
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R86322&SystemID=PLX_PNT_CEL_SX270N&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=162&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=5&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=113073

i have xp on my drive but i just tell it to boot of the network and set the WOL for the nic also.