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The BIOS
Intel BIOS's are generally pretty plain-Jane, without overclocking features - and this one is no different.
It does have a nice splash screen :-)
Mind you, there is one extra with Intel BIOS's - you can get a systems integrator kit, and make your own color splash screen, and pre-configure BIOS settings, and lock out controls that you don't want your users to be able to access.
The Main Menu let's you enable/disable HyperThreading, and shows you some basic system information. From here you can also set the time.
The Advanced Menu let's you go to the following configuration sub-menus:
- Boot
- Peripheral
- Drive
- Event Log
- Video Configuration
- Chipset Configuration
- Management
- USB
Probably the most interesting Advanced Configuration menu is the Video one - it lets you adjust the shared video memory size, and lets you set a PCI video card as the primary adapter if you plug one in.
They really should have just directly showed the monitoring screen here.
I would not have made users dig down one more level to a memory configuration screen.
The Security, Power, Boot and Exit menu's complete the BIOS:
But wait - if you move the BIOS jumper to the maintenance mode, you get an extra screen where you can clear a lost CMOS password.
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I'm sure a lot of people are still running mobile chips in their systems to scrape by with performance and lower power compared to full on desktop parts. I have a 35w mobile 2500+ xp running -.150v on a media center right now as an example.
From what I hear though the Atom is a good performer if you don't plan to do a lot, the demonstrations seemed to highlight that quite a bit, it would be interesting to see how it would have all panned out had it been out of order execution instead.
M.A.M.E.?
Autocad 2002?
Aspen Engineering Suite?
SimSci Pro-II?
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Be calm, be polite, be enlightened.
it sure does have Gigabit Ethernet. how could someone solve the redundancy problem, using RAID??? is there any PCI card to do the job???
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HD playback in XP using CoreAVC & MPC-HC works brilliantly (Screen resolution is 1280x1024 at the moment, so its not full HD), but Im playing a 1080p Sample of Transformers.
Tried using XBMC but its horrible and drops frames left, right & center. Apparently it'd be better using the newer ffmpeg builds which better support dual-core CPU's etc, but Im not sure, havent looked into it enough. Was Googl'ing for answers hoping somebody else had when I found this thread.
Have yet to try the XBMC LiveCD to see how it goes, will do soon-ish
Anyway, xp runs a lil faster than Ubuntu, and this beta build of Vista 2 or windows 7(call it what you will) seems to be a lil faster than xp.
Have only had one program that wouldn't install right and it was an old dvd ripping program i bought at wal-mart 5 years ago for $3.95usd.
Other than that everything seems to work correctly but its hard to tell since I've never used Vista, so only comparing to xp.
Theoretically, you could pull a D945GCLF2 out of the box and other than case assembly, you could be up and running in about 20-25 minutes
I have to say this board is a cracker for the cash, overall I liked your review but trying it to run various games, its not what this board is about. I agree if they had used a better chipset the power requirements would have even been better, but for me using an older GPU has meant most of the os's work with it right out of the box.
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I've checked in control panel and the drivers appear to have been installed correctly.
Can anyone help me here please - I don't know where to go next.
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Mike
Sorry for any time wasted by anyone - found the problem. I didn't realise that not only did I have to play with the bios setting but also disable the onboard graphics from within Windows control panel.
Mike
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