Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2022 17:10:07 GMT 10
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This computer belongs to a friend. It had a problem of occasionally losing its time and date as well as BIOS settings. In addition it was getting too slow booting up, and then crawled along like a snail ! I made an offer to my friend to have a look at it to see if anything can be done. To me this machine is very interesting since it is the first ITX-form computer that I could lay my hands on. Although being very compact and light weight, it has all the standard features: DVD drive, two 3.5" hard disks, built-in power supply, USB ports, serial port, Ethernet port, even full-size PCI card slots. I was also quite impressed to find out that it can accommodate both IDE as well as SATA devices. Exactly what I need to carry out experiments using the various types of disks which I have in my hardware collection.
On opening up the machine I discovered that the IDE DVD drive was never connected, and the two available IDE channels on the motherboard were used to drive two 80 GB hard disks. The lithium battery for CMOS-RAM was not firmly locked in its holder, which explained the frequent BIOS setting problems.
Windows 7 Professional OS was installed on both hard disks, and it looks like this xPC machine had been used at one stage in its long past as a dedicated firewall of some sort.
This computer belongs to a friend. It had a problem of occasionally losing its time and date as well as BIOS settings. In addition it was getting too slow booting up, and then crawled along like a snail ! I made an offer to my friend to have a look at it to see if anything can be done. To me this machine is very interesting since it is the first ITX-form computer that I could lay my hands on. Although being very compact and light weight, it has all the standard features: DVD drive, two 3.5" hard disks, built-in power supply, USB ports, serial port, Ethernet port, even full-size PCI card slots. I was also quite impressed to find out that it can accommodate both IDE as well as SATA devices. Exactly what I need to carry out experiments using the various types of disks which I have in my hardware collection.
On opening up the machine I discovered that the IDE DVD drive was never connected, and the two available IDE channels on the motherboard were used to drive two 80 GB hard disks. The lithium battery for CMOS-RAM was not firmly locked in its holder, which explained the frequent BIOS setting problems.
Windows 7 Professional OS was installed on both hard disks, and it looks like this xPC machine had been used at one stage in its long past as a dedicated firewall of some sort.