Yes, the wireless keyboard and mouse arrived this morning wrapped in 'Happy Christmas' paper! Not bad for eBay, two days. Its a pity my other kit isn't here as last night was spent reading the product guide (warning 4MB file) for the D945GCLF atom board. Looks ok so far, though I did have some worries over the RAM I've ordered as the manual references SPD memory. I couldn't find any references to SPD on LamdaTek's site for the Corsair DDR2 module, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed... However, the manual (p.12) says:
So I'm hoping all will be ok. Now, where did I put those anti static gloves?"the board should be populated with DIMMs that support the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data structure. If your DIMMs do not support SPD, you will see a notification to this effect on the screen at power up. The BIOS will attempt to configure the memory controller for normal operation."
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If your corsair DDR2 doesnt support SPD i'd be shocked.
All SPD does is enable RAM makers to set the latency timings for different memory speeds. The Wikipedia article about it is pretty good - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Presence_Detect
Best of luck anyways, will be watching this with interest.
I'll be interested to see how you get on with this project.
I take it you're planning on having this little machine in your lounge somewhere? (or is that what the DLNA Media Server will be for?)
I myself will be buying one of these as soon as money allows. :)
Hi there. vexx - Thanks for the pointer to wikipedia, interesting. Fingers crossed, I'll know tomorrow as the case and motherboard arrived this evening!
edgecrusher - nice looking WLAN device! As for the DLNA server, yes - I'm planning on making this device a front room addition. I'm not sure yet whether I'll run the DLNA server on the board or ship content onto my LinkStation... More on the blog as I go through this.
Its nice to know people are actually reading this! :-)
Hi Vexx,
DDR2 RAM worked a treat!
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