Intel MINI-ITX board - D201GLYL & D201GLY

[MMZonker]

I recently bought this motherboard, but can't get it to power up. The standby indicator light is turned on. When I put the jumper into the "on" position, the processor fan, hard drive, and CD-Rom drive start up but everything shuts down about 3 seconds later, without anything being displayed to the screen. I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong. I'm using an Dell power supply that has the P4 connector. The only thing I can think of is that the ATX connector appears to be missing 1 wire, the -5V on the motherboard. Would this condition cause that problem? It seemed to be fine on the dell it was originally powering...

[MMZonker]

EDIT: I used a different PSU with the - 5V line. Still the same problem.

[b10hazard]

don't leave the jumper on, that will cause the board to turn on, then hard off. put the jumper on, then pull it back off. Better yet, just get an old computer case, and pull out the power button.

[TruckinMP3]

don't leave the jumper on, that will cause the board to turn on, then hard off. put the jumper on, then pull it back off. Better yet, just get an old computer case, and pull out the power button.

What b10hazard is saying is use a pushbutton momentary switch with the leads from an old case.

If the old case is too old the switch will be latching and not any different from your current jumper example.

[MMZonker]

Sweet. Momentary contact works great. What a newbie question....

Thanks.

[Pez Are Yummy]

Whenever I set this board to a resolution of 800x480 my monitor shows it as 800x600 and cuts off 100 pixels from the top and bottom (Like a letter box movie) Has anyone encountered this?

Edit:

After some playing around I set the resolution to 800x480 in windows and pressed reset, after this it displayed in full screen. However, when displaying this image



The lines are scewed, indicating that the resolution isn't quite right. When I press the menu button on my 7" lilliput it says 640x480. However, when I open my roadrunner skin which is set to open at 800x480 it opens to full screen (when i open it at a resolution that is larger than 800x480 it still opens at 800x480 and is not fullscreen)

I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to search next for a solution, searching in both google and this forum doesn't turn up any further information, so if there is someone out there that is smarter than me I'd sure appreciate some help.

[upspace]

my experience so far

psu

pico 120 psu runs perfect for this board. pico 60 would also be sufficient but the problem is that the 12v rail is not having enough amperes during power up (2ampsX12=24 watts) and therefore does not boot.

overall power consumption is around 35w for motherboard in idle state and 4w for usb hub (with gps mouse, external hard disk, dvb-t receiver and seperate antenna, wifi stick, touchscreen and usb keyboard, plus dvd usb drive in idle mode).

cpu increase to 100% and dvd usage / spinning does not take much more power and goes up to total 45-47w measured from the carnetix dc-dc regulator but before pico psu, i.e. including the (in)efficiency of a psu (which is really small for pico), excluding the loss from the carnetix dc-dc regulator (which is expected to be little as well).

intel d201gly, pico and carnetix (23something with usb monitoring) is the perfect combo for car-pc. go and get it! believe me i tried several other combos (dell laptop was second best) as well and this is the best price/power/efficiency/functionality combo at the moment. unfortunately the pico and carnetix cost each as the motherboard itself but those are devices specifically designed for efficiency and car-pc usage and therefore the higher prices are okay. they are crucial for a working car-pc environment and safe you a lot of frustration (dead battery, bridging gap taking fuel when engine is off etc.)

only boot/splash screen time could be better. still do not understand why it takes 10 seconds from power on the psu till windows de-hibernation. laptop does this in 1 sec or below. there must be some memory or initialization checks you cannot disable in bios settings. intel when do you provide us with new bios?

[Tensai]

Did you measure power consumption per voltage rail? I.e, You mention that the peak draw was 45-47W. Can you tell us how much current was being pulled on the 12V line vs. the 5V line?

If not, no problem. I'm just curious.

[jmbickham]

And now there is a new version out... D201GLY2. CPU is now Celeron 220, fanless heatsink (from the pics) and biggest difference is... 2 SATA connectors onboard. http://www.intel.com/products/mother...GLY2/index.htm

Damn it... and I just got mine (original version) 1.5 weeks ago... At least I got a great deal on it.


On another note... has anyone replaced the CPU heatsink/fan? If so... what did you use? I'd like to get something lower profile, but this one is hard to work with...

[Tensai]

At buy.com its only an $8 difference. If you use Google checkout you can get the D201GLY for $51, and the D201GLY2 for $59 with free shipping. I bought the D201 about a month ago, but at that price, I might just buy the GLY2 anyway and build a HTPC out of it.