[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Doug Bade]

Well I ordered one of these intel nano ITX  little buggers after 
reading this post....

It cost me $108.00 or so out the door from NewEgg with 2gb of ddr2 
with it. I installed it in a spare PC case last night.

I booted off a Fedora 9 Flash image on a flash drive right out of the 
blocks perfectly and autodetected everything... looks like a good 
platform for modern kernel 25+ Linux..

I then installed Fedora 10 i386 ( it loaded the i686 version) from a 
Sata dvd drive to a Sata hard drive. Install went flawless....

I then TRIED to install XP... however this did not go so well....

Installing XP Pro OEM at Sp2 from a Sata dvd drive to a Sata hard 
drive locked it up as fast as I entered the install setup on the CD.. 
never got to the user license screen.. locked up hard... I next 
installed from a sata dvd drive to an IDE hard drive and it installed 
fine... It looks like the Sata Drive chipset is the issue and or 
drivers.. The install completed fine but still needed oem patches 
from the intel mb disk to get all drivers working correctly...

My real surprise was when I got finished...XP Pro saw (4) .. 
FOUR...  1.6ghz processor cores..... I thought the chip was a dual 
core... surprise surprise on that...

I will be loading Power SDR this weekend an playing with it.. I have 
one PCI slot on it so will put my SDR1000 on first...

Looks pretty impressive for ~100.00 motherboard....including ram.... 
and small !!!!!!!

Doug
KD8B




At 01:30 PM 12/12/2008, Robert McGwier wrote:
>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
>The Atom 300 series is impressive, as low power Intel part (8 watts
>max) and with SSE2 and SSE3 which as we know is easily capable of very
>high rates with complex numbers (SSE3).
>
>http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/320528.pdf
>
>
>The particular board you have shown is quite nicely laid out with very
>nice graphics support (Intel mobile AGP based GPU).
>
>If we could get a fairly low power drive and aggressively turn it off
>and mostly run out of memory on RAM drives,  this could be a useful
>low power computer.  It has hyperthreading (done much better this
>time).
>
>
>Did you get one of the fancy little heat fin cases for 
>portable/automobile use?
>
>Bob
>
>On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Philip Covington
><p.covington at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Frank Brickle <brickle at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> An Atom based mini-ITX running Linux is looking very good to me versus
> >>> the other alternatives available now.
> >>>
> >>> All this for < $100:...
> >>
> >> Agreed, this looks like an excellent sandbox. both as a starting platform
> >> from which to specialize, and as a solution in itself. Is there 
> a vendor you
> >> like?
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Frank
> >> AB2KT
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> It's white to be snow,
> >> It's cold to be ice,
> >> It's windy to blow,
> >> And it's nice to be nice.
> >> -- a dream poem reported by Edmund Wilson
> >>
> >
> > This is where I get my stuff and I've been very satisfied with 
> their service:
> >
> > <http://www.logicsupply.com/>
> >
> > <http://www.logicsupply.com/products/boxd945gclf2>
> >
> > 73 Phil N8VB
> >
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