Came across the Raspberry Pi the other day. Find it intriguing, especially as my early computing experiences include soldering together my very own Sinclair ZX80. Not out yet so this is all theoretical, but already started trying to re-prioritise my computing requirements: perhaps use the Raspberry ...

OK - I've de-frocked my Delta. WARNING - the heatsink sheet around the internals is live! Things are all working fine and still need to take some pics and work out where to place it. Cracking the case: not sure there is a way that is non-destructive. Basically the 2 halves are glued together with th...

Is this a horribly stupid idea? Not at all - exactly what this forum is about :twisted: On the one hand you kiss your warranty goodbye, risk breaking the thing and could find out the residual charge storage in the capacitors. On the other the cooling has to be radically improved. Have had a similar...

Plus, you just can't beat my installation guide for effortless silent computing. ~El~Jefe~ - you are da man :idea: I have discovered your detailed installation guide can be re-worked not just for PSUs, and not just new components!! I have an old XP2100 CPU I have been meaning to shift on Fleabay bu...

1 fan, sensors/fancontrol

I am surprised at Vicotnik's report - I was going to suggest the DA-2 as I have had a similar problem with 2 Delta bricks. Try plug the DA-2 (only) into the meter (as per my pic ) and see what watts you get

Why am I not surprised that once I figured out how to get fancontrol working in Ubuntu 10.04 it would work far better that SpeedFan in Windows 7? 5 years since I tried to tweak any fans in Windows so cant compare directly. But figure this is hardly surprising - the nature of Linux is that when you ...

My NC81 with Fintek f71862fg needs 2 things: 1) add acpi_enforce_resources=lax to boot command line to allow sensors modules to conflict with ACPI addresses - I suspect this is your basic issue. It sounds counter intuitive but until there are ACPI drivers for the sensors modules is necessary. 2) My ...

FWIW my Nexus D12-SL12 1200 RPM 3 wire ran fine (Abit mobo, so the start/stop values likely to be wrong for you) with the following /etc/fancontrol INTERVAL=10 DEVPATH=hwmon2=devices/platform/f71882fg.544 DEVNAME=hwmon2=f71862fg FCTEMPS=hwmon2/device/pwm1=hwmon2/device/temp2_input FCFANS= hwmon2/dev...

Would also be curious to know.

For sure the 05 BIOS rev supports Propus and Rana core so Athlon II X4 6xx is OK. The Magic-Pro website (same board, except in Chinese!) seems to indicate Phenom X4 and X3 up to 65W are OK.

Old news.

Most cases don't make any noise - it is the components that typically cause problems The Antec-supplied fans in the mini-Skeleton are dire (see my opinion here).

I'm pressed for space in my case, and my hard drive is connected at the middle connector, so I'm thinking I can cut it off after that point and tape over it. Electrically I can't see why it would effect anything. cheers No problem - just use sharp scissors. I have cut (and re-made as appropriate) p...

In the UK the modem is usually 'free' with the contract. IIRC there is an £80 charge if you lose it or fail to return it at the end of the contract. Again, IIRC, they have an embedded MAC address so swapping the modem is non-trivial as you need the cable company to play ball as well. My cable inter...

R.I.P.

His explanations and guides were perfectly at a level that I could understand, and implement. His experience and gentle insights in his postings here were always particularly apt.

Does it get warm/hot with no load? The first one definitely did - this second one I gave a half hour test and it seemed pretty cool, but then again the ambient for the second test was much lower (central heating malfunction!). Will give it an hour run at room temp when I get a chance. It was a genu...

OK - so RMAd the Delta power brick and the new one has exactly the same no-load draw (21W, 0.09A at 240VAC)! Doesn't make sense to me as the Energy Star rating for a very similar model, ADP-90SB BBXX is 0.17W @ 230VAC. My guess is my ADP-90SB AB differs mainly in the mains cable standards/formats. N...

It definitely appears that Antec's EU C/S is substandard. Not in my experience. As per my build thread had queries about the no-load draw of the Delta brick that came with the mini Skeleton. Posted a query to Antec customer support who agreed it was excessive. Pointed out I should RMA via vendor an...

AndersBrontosaurus wrote:Trying to figure out what that program really do and if it works in Ubuntu.

lm-sensors and its children fancontrol and pwmconfig.

i would have gotten rid of the rear fan grill, simply unneeded, your fingers won't get hurt if you reach back there. (just what is the rear fan cooling anyways? your dvd drive? can you get rid of that fan? maybe save like 2-3 watts right there) Yup - in fact I have removed the entire fan. Arguably ...

Must be AMD ... and mini-ITX In my recent research that results in 3 options - J&W Minix 780G/Albatron KI780G, the Jetway JNC81-LF/Magic-Pro NC81 and the Zotac GF8200. ... with at least 4 SATA2 ports and one GbE port. That's all I ask. ... I guess part of the problem is I only trust Asus, MSI, and ...

Strange you should mention it, but my web hosts seemed to be down from sometime on the evening of 7 Nov till sometime on 8 Nov (all times UTC) and when they came back I couldn't access a forum I run via a hardcoded IP address. But can access it via a non-IP URL. And no - it is a fixed IP and is stil...

How about 4 SATA, 2 eSATA? Jetway NC-81LF - I got mine from LinITX (who do ship to Sweden). And BTW, the on-board Wi-Fi header is actually a superset of USB and can be used for an extra 2 USB if you want.

Interesting point. Certainly there is no mention anywhere in the Skeleton documentation of any EMI issues specifically related to the Skeleton. Then again I already mentioned even the downloadable manual is pathetically thin - although it does suggest liquids, pets & children may not be a good mix. ...

Gee sapereaude I am surprised you would cast doubt on my German brennenstuhl :D (So what its probably made in China!) But yes, I did try some sanity checks. For a start the brick is getting very warm under no-load. And to check the meter I did try my speaker subsystem brick (2W no-load, peaks to 33W...

Took some more pics, and have been doing some more work. http://www.dukla.net/dukla02.jpeg Got rid of the nasty 150mm fan Antec supplied and cut my trusty Nexus D12SL-12 to fit. Overall a win/win/win. I run Prime 24/7 with CnQ engaged - fan speed (using lmsensors/fancontrol) is circa 700rpm (virtual...

doveman wrote:Just reporting back that I've fixed the problem.

Good to hear.

doveman wrote:I'd daisy-chained a couple of molex extensions to the one coming from the DC board so that I could connect both the HD and DVD.

A bit like wire coat hangers - put 2 of them together and they start breeding

OK – so the nights are drawing in and I decided it was time to play with my rig. As traditional towers/desktops seem to be going out of fashion in favour of laptops and netbooks I decided to go ITX. Looking around I figured it was hard to significantly beat my existing AMD 4850e/780G setup, but at...

I'ld vote for the PSU. It could be the mobo if you have a delayed start parameter set in the BIOS and the BIOS has gone mad (or indecisive whether the drive should start or not). But highly unlikely. If you disconnect the data cable, and leave the power cable plugged in, do you get the same symptoms...

Feature & Brief Elevated standoff for motherboard back side components Our Comment The significance of this is unclear. I would imagine this is part of the ITX spec - it seems quite a few components are finding their way onto the underside of ITX mobos. Like an SO-DIMM slot on the Jetway NC81: http...

Just put together a Linux system around this board ... "Sensors" doesn't seem to be able to find anything... idale - have you resolved this? If not, what BIOS version do you have? nd what version of Linux/sensors? Reason for my interest is I am considering swapping down to an ITX system and have th...