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Old 03-01-2008, 05:36 PM   #57
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chamberlin View Post
man, I wish I would have found this thread earlier... we could have shared our agony...
I am the Geil RAM guy BTW....

To make a VERY long (and ongoing) story (kinda) short, I had one of the first J9F2-KHDE boards and started things off with a huge memory problem, with my Geil RAM.... it would only work slowed down to 533.... got in a long drawn discourse with Geil, and they were very helpful, but the RAM never did work right with the first gen motherboard. At the time, I was in a hurry to get things running for a car show, so I ordered a second board, saturday overnight delivery....same shiite. Only would run at slower speeds, but at least board #2 wasn't crashing while making BIOS adjustments!!! Later on, they came out with new BIOS versions, (A02 and A03), and it was a total pain figuring out how to upgrade via a compact flash card as there is no floppy here! That was another disaster as they labled their links wrong on the web site, and I accidentally installed the A02 on one board. Regardless, when I switched them to auto RAM settings everything took a dump, and both boards became useless, even resetting CMOS was of no help. Both boards went back to MITXPC (they have been very helpful) and they sent me two new version boards, some of the connectors headers were different color and they shipped with BIOS A03 (which is good cause I need the miniPCI port to be enabled!). Bought 2 GB of generic kingston RAM at CompUSA and everything on board #3 worked fine, and appeared to be running at normall 677 speed... YAY. So I had an extra board laying around, oh well.
This setup did run great, with the T7200 and 2 gigs of RAM... fast, stable and quick boots and shutdowns.
But a few months ago my video went out. F$@#*. The computer completely boots and runs (I am running Vista 64 ultimate BTW, and it runs fine) but there is no video at all going to the Xenarc. I can poke around blind on the keyboard and get my XMPCR sound up and running (thanks to desktop icons) but of course no video = sucky *** CarPC.
So today I finally got around to trying some things. Hooked up my laptop to the Xenarc, and voila, the Xenarc comes to life. Hooked up a 22" CRT monitor to the Jetway....nothing. Bought a FX-5200 256MB Nvidia PCI card to try (the only Vista capable PCI card I could find) and, crap, still no video or POST or anything on the Jetway, even with a completely seperate video card. SO, out came board number 4, spent an hour pulling board 3 and re-installing board 4 into my glove box area. Reboot... YAY! BIOS came up (and yes, I also found out through ruining two PS/2 Keyboards on the first boards that you have to have the header PS/2 adapter installed right, so now I leave the dongle attached for hooking up a PS/2 for BIOS adjustments). So I set up the basics in the BIOS, and hit F10. Upon reboot, no video. MutherF&$@#ER! Reboot and try to enter BIOS again... no video... all the keys do what they are supposed to, I can here the proper beeps and windows sounds, but there is no video on anything. So now I searched the forum again, and found this thread... great, looks like there is an inherent video issue with these boards. But at least you have pointed me to a new motherboard I can use... Question: Because I have so deeply integrated the layout of this Jetway board into my glove box, do you foresee any connectivity/form factor issues when I return these two Jetway boards and buy that MSI Fuzzy board? It sounds like it is a direct replacement huh?

p.s. Today, when I installed board #4, I did select LCD in my BIOS, but I *am* running an LCD, and I think that is where I had it set before...but I will re-set the BIOS and try it on auto just for kicks.
P.P.S I also noticed they have A04 and A05 BIOS available now, anybody upgrade to these yet?



I ordered from Minitx too, and the second board was overnighted to me too. They must hate this board as much as I do by now with all the returns. I must have received the first revision board since my headers were not multicoloured at all as the product should be.


Oh well, glad I dumped that crappy board. The MSI is the same size and only differences would be the ram slot placement being rotated. But other than that the same. The 20pin ATX connector is moved, but for the better. It is in a better position for layout.
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