On Monday, January 02, 2012 04:53:35 PM Dave did opine: > On 1/2/2012 2:58 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 2 January 2012 19:32, gene heskett<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:31:38 PM andy pugh did opine: > >>> However, there is no reason not to use the built-in video with that > >>> card, it works fine. > >> > >> And this is the foxcon board? > > > > No, this is the Intel BOXD525MW (but I think that "BOX" might just > > mean it is in a box) > > FYI - the Intel "Box" CPU set usually come with a CPU fan, Sata Cables, > the rear cutout that pops in the chassis - otherwise known as an I/O > shield and installation instructions. Since the MW525 does not need a > CPU fan, there is no fan included. > The "Box" is really designed for retail sales so it looks nice etc, in > contrast to a bulk package. Also the warranty is sometimes > different. The Box MW525 has a 3 year warranty. I'm not sure about > the bulk packed Motherboards. > > The MW525 from Intel is a known entity. I have no idea how well the > Foxcon 525 board compares. I've assembled several MW525 PCs this past > year. The cost difference between the Foxconn 525 and the Intel may > be $10. > > The Intel MW525 boots just fine off an external USB DVD/CDRW drive. > > Dave One thing seems to be that there is nobody at home, at any of the contact us phone numbers today, so until I can verify how much of a premium I'll ave to pay to swap the foxconn board for the real thing remains to be discovered.
Back to shoveling snow intermittently. :( Humm, providence maybe. I called Jim, who did have a computer repair shop up in Jane Lew, but closed it after 2 years because there wasn't enough work coming in to pay him a buck an hour on average, so they loaded up what inventory they had & took it home on June 30th last year. Some of that inventory included 5 or 6 Ultra 400 PSU's, so I told him I'd be up and get one as soon as he got home from the funeral parlor, the father of one of the sales guys at the tv station had died. But as I was wrapping up that conversation my phone started the call waiting beeps. It was Mike, 2 doors up the street, offering to give me the innards out of an old compaq he was writing off on this year tax returns. So I grabbed a meter and went up, tossed the mobo out on a wooden board, dug enough out of the box to power it up and measured the PSU out as 5.11 volts on a drive cable. Stayed & had a cuppa, then slip-slid my way back to the house, box under arm, no charge, got everything but the hard drive & case. It was a 1Ghz athlon, single 256meg memory stick. So my problem may be solved till this next psu fades away. I'll probably see if that memory will fit in an HP I have that has the same CPU but keeps running out of memory because that is all that is in it. That box is into swap in 5 minutes from a cold boot just playing 'intertoobs' music so I haven't tried to use the "goat" for anything useful. Goat seems an apt name, as its 100% sacrificial, and if it was a cat, would long since be out of lives. :-P Not that I'm going to putz with it tonight, but tomorrow maybe because to get at it, I'll have to prop open the door to make room for a small ladder to reach it. I see the latency-test is still running, showing 21.something u-secs now after about 1.5 hours. With that PSU showing at 4.92. I would dearly love to find the reference in those things & be able to jiggle it up .2 volts at a time as they age. But then they couldn't sell me another every 13 months, so those Chinese will see to it that that isn't going to happen, not even if I bet the farm on it. But even the 'dead' ones are excellent src's for power hexfet's when you manage to blow the one in the mills head housing. Besides, the streets have a nice coat of black ice under a 1/4" covering of snow & that says I'd better stay home anyway. My Dee is feeling some better, so I don't think I'll have to run out and get her anything yet tonight. And she, knowing the streets are bad, wouldn't send me out unless she was out of smoke, that would do it. ;) Thanks Dave & have a better 2012. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> FACILITY REJECTED 100044200000; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
