On Fri Jan 28 12:36:48 EST 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > There are some newish fanless intel mini-itx motherboards about, anyone > > had one of these boot plan9? I had poor results from the previous generation > > due to unhelpful BIOS. > > Try to get your hands on a C3-based board. They tend to predate much of > the ACPI crap that has infested the BIOS space these days. > > I'm typing this on a PXE-booted EPIA-EK system with a 1GHz C3 CPU. > While this particular system has a fan on the CPU heatsink, it *never* > turns on. My display runs at 1920x1080x16 (VESA mode).
intel branded motherboards tend to be problematic. all the supermicro atom boards i've tried work well as terminals. - erik