Fellow admins, We have 40 thin clients on campus that have been in operation for 1 year. The motherboard is Intel's D510MO (D510 Atom) and the PSU is a PicoPSU 90 with 60W brick. They work great.
Due to the current unavailability of that motherboard, this year we have ordered and received forty D525MW boards. Our vendor has not yet sent the PicoPSU 90, citing the following concern: "A quick follow up on the 90W Pico power supply in relation to compatibility to the mainboards you are planning on using them with. - My departmental/tech manager has stipulated that there are known compatibility issues around it and failure or damage is possible. - All sales will be final for the PICOPSU-90 whereas standard warranty/service will still be honored. Also noted, that [my vendor organization] has deemed the PicoPSU-150-XT-102-Power-Kit to be the compatible/appropriate part in lieu of the aforementioned PICOPSU-90 with your new motherboard power configuration." We did some brief testing of the D525MW with the PicoPSU 90 and it boots and runs LTSP fine. The D525MO has a 4-pin CPU ATX power connector that the D510MO does not, but the PicoPSU 90 has a cable for this. Both boards have a 24-pin main power connector, and run fun despite the PicoPSU only having a 20-pin cable. This is a supported configuration according to mini-box.com. While booting and running LTSP/rdesktop, the measured power draw at the wall reached a maximum of 22W. Some google searches didn't turn up any serious concern with this combination, except where hard drives were involved. We're quite confident that this PSU will work fine with this motherboard. By way of due diligence however, I would like to ask if anybody here is using or has tried this motherboard/PSU combination with or without success, and any insight you might have to share about it. db ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
