Intel BOXD945GCLF2 Atom 330 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

good board

Reviewed By: djn on 3/21/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Cheap, small pretty powerful all things considered

Cons: Only native Vista Home premium drivers allow for dual displays
Intel drivers stink on this unit unless you sign up for the developers and make your own - I'm not quite that good

Other Thoughts: To Johnthedj you will need Vista Home premium oem to use extended desktop on this unit for video or karaoke output through S-Video.
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Board and support s*ck

Reviewed By: ozone on 3/20/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Using this for car computer. Good bang for buck, S3 sleep mode.

Cons: 1. Three of the drivers that came with the board would not load.
2. Changing the boot order in the BIOS had no effect.
3. You can only enter the BIOS by changing a jumper. Not a problem when you are building a system, but a pain in the butte when the computer is embedded in the dashboard of a car.
4. During POST Error message comes up saying "The firmware has determined that the system time/date has not been set." After setting the time and this message came up twice I figured the battery was dead and not keeping the time. The battery was replaced with a new one and the error still comes up. The computer can be still be booted by pressing the "Enter" key, but once again, there is no keyboard in my application, just a touch screen which needs to get beyond this point to function, not to mention how annoying it is to have to wait around to press enter every time you boot.
5.To combat the problem, I figured I'd download the latest BIOS. Intel's page was down.

Other Thoughts: 6. Tried to email them about it, but they seem to only deal with support through a phone call (Mon-Fri only) or their chat support which was also not available on the weekend. It said to fill in some info and they would get back to me, but one of the required fields is "Channel ID." What is channel ID?
7. Every time I tried to download something or use an automated help feature on their website, it wasn't working, in either Mozilla or IE.

So I'm left in the dark until Mon-Fri, when, imagine, that, I work.

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Reviewed By: on 3/18/2010

Tech Level: average - Ownership: less than 1 day

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Small - low power.

Cons: Failed after two hours. Would not POST.

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