Intel D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Atom

**Lukeyson** · 03-11-2009, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by crooper

What are good quiet replacement case and chipset fans for this motherboard?

I just went to a local component shop (Jaycar - www.jaycar.com.au in Australia) and purchased a 40x40x10mm 3-pin 12V Ball Bearing fan (There are 5V, sleeve and 2-pin versions as well). There's quite a few choices up on eBay as well.

It just screwed in place of the T&T fan. The specs say the new fan is supposed to be about 5dB louder because it moves more air, but in practice it is much quieter than the T&T was on it's dying legs.

Lukeyson

**DrLove** · 03-14-2009, 07:25 PM

Any one know if the onboard s/pdif is TTL or CMOS level?

**raygtir** · 03-15-2009, 12:27 AM

HELP!!!

XP SP3 & SATA (3.5") - perfect
Vista Ultimate SP1 & SATA (3.5") - perfect

Then, same BIOS settings, same memory, same PCI video card ...

Fresh-install:-
XP & IDE (3.5" + DVD/RW) - problem
XP SP3 & IDE (3.5" + DVD/RW) - problem
Reformat & fresh-install:-
XP & IDE (3.5" + DVD/RW) - problem

Then, same BIOS settings, same memory, same video card, back to ...

XP SP3 & SATA (3.5") - perfect
Vista Ultimate SP1 & SATA (3.5") - perfect

Then, same everything ...

Vista Ultimate SP1 & SATA (3.5") & DVD/RW & CD/ROM (IDE) - perfect

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh! !!

The problem only occurs when I hook up an IDE HD (as my only hard disk - not tried SATA + IDE HD).

The problem.

The initial keyboard response is slow (minutes!) and the mouse response is non-existent.
I can only get the mouse to respond by either:-
Hot-unplugging/re-plugging the mouse (hate that!) OR
By pressing the Windows key / wait / wait / wait / press ESC then the mouse will work.

What is this all about?

I'm guessing a BIOS update would fix this but:-

a) there's no direct mention of a fix for this in any of the Intel support documentation (well, not in plain English, anyway)
b) I shouldn't have to flash the BIOS for such a fundamental error
c) I hate BIOS flashing, done only as a last resort.

HELP!!!

**DeltaFX** · 03-15-2009, 04:28 PM

Looks like this board only support ATAPI devices on its IDE port. This is curious. But I've seen stranger things.

**raygtir** · 03-15-2009, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by DeltaFX

Looks like this board only support ATAPI devices on its IDE port. This is curious. But I've seen stranger things.

Me too!
But aside from the initial no-mouse response (& to a lesser extent, the keyboard) once resucitated everything works 100% OK including the IDE disk. That's how I installed XP, upgraded to SP3 & re-installed XP etc.

Once I reverted to a SATA drive ... no problem.

Maybe it's a BIOS settings thing?
(There are some pretty weird options in there ... like no numeric keyboard input when changing date/time - only the "+" & "-" keys allowed.)

Cheers, Ray

**muntos** · 03-16-2009, 08:47 AM

Hello guys, do you have problems with USB devices and this mobo ?
This is driving me crazy, I have one USB Modem model (Huawei E180 ) that once is plugged in the mobo freeze at POST code 94 ("Clearring keyboard buffer"), it don't go any further with this USB modem.
Also with X-FI 5.1 USB soundcard I have over 15 seconds delay at boot (right before POST screen).

**raygtir** · 03-22-2009, 08:05 PM

I noticed a similar problem to mine (IDE HD & IDE CD/DVD connected at the same time) elsewhere, under MAC OS ... theirs just hung.

So maybe it's a generic issue with this board.

Any one else tried this combo?

**bemenaker** · 03-22-2009, 09:50 PM

muntos are you running the most recent bios? That seemed to fix most of the usb issues.

**raygtir** · 03-22-2009, 10:35 PM

bemenaker - what is your "most recent" BIOS version number?

Does it fix the apparently fundamental IDE problem ... I'm sold if it does!

**Sinobi** · 03-23-2009, 03:05 AM

I did the XP installation from a 1GB USB key with the aid of USB_MultiBoot_10.
That way you'll be able to do without booting from an optical drive.

This method worked with both BIOS 099 and 150.

Henrik