VIA Epia M10000 Mini-ITX Motherboard

[Brian]

"VIA is a very well known company for their motherboards and chipsets. A while back, we took a look at the DFI Lan Party KT400a which featured VIA's KT400a chipset. While VIA hasn't always been on top of the competition, they do produce some very interesting and worth while products. One of their latest ventures is their series of Mini-ITX motherboards which fit almost an entire computer (CPU, RAM, VGA, Audio, Ethernet) onto a single 17x17 cm board. Besides the insanely small size of the mITX boards is the insanely low power consumption of the board which can run off of a small fanless 60 watt power supply (with low power optical and hard drives). Today we will be looking at the feature-packed VIA Epia M10000 motherboard which features VIA's latest Nehemiah core clocked at 1 GHz."

http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?REVIEWDIR=via_epia_m10000

[Kurtis]

i love that thing. can't wait to see what you do with it soon :)

[handrail]

yeah, put it in a dukes of hazzard lunchbox. that would be cool! i had this one when i was 7!!!!

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[Kurtis]

lolol.

[A Person]

Hey Brian, I got a question about the onboard video. I was reading a review of this board on another site http://www.techseekers.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=60&page=3 and they said that they could boot using the tv output but once the os loaded it switched back to vga. So they had to have a monitor around to switch back to tv. The thing that confused me was that they said, "Once I switched over to TV out, I could remove the monitor from now on." I was wondering if this meant that they could remove the monitor untill they rebooted or if they didnt need a monitor forever after that. Do know anything about this? (The peeps over there didn't respond to my email)

I am working on a project (in the planning stage) to build a pc inside of something portable, like a nintendo or a lunch-box or something cool so I can take it around to other peoples dorms and play old video games with emulators and watch dvds. I am gonna use an m1000 but if I have to have a monitor around everytime I boot then I'll have to buy a seperate vid card which will totaly change my plans.

Also, where did u get yours from? Or did u get it for free?

[Brian]

Funny thing is, I don't have a TV. I'll see if I can snag one and test it out.

[Brian]

To set up TV output, first attach a TV AND a Monitor and select "CRT+TV" in the BIOS and boot normally. Both screens will boot normally, but the TV will go blank once in Windows. (using your monitor) Go to the Display Properties (right click on desktop and click properties), go to the "Settings" tab, then "Advanced" then "S3Display. Then click on the TV icon/image and it should highlight in blue and tick the box below it. Click "OK" and the TV should display again.

Once you have done that, you should be able to shutdown, remove the monitor, and display with only the TV. I will test this out in a few days and keep you updated.

[A Person]

cool, thanks so much!!!

[ELiTE KiLLaH]

hopefully its just a one time thing...otherwise thats just fucking stpuid of them lol

:?

[A Person]

Ya, if its just a one time thing then I dont need any other video card and then I can stick some other fun stuff in it instead.