Topic: Whxih Micro ATX

[belyache]

Hi All:

I would like to build a few SME servers, but want to build them based on a Micro ATX motherboard.

Would you please respond if you have been able to install on a Micro ATX, and which one you used. I prefer Intel processors.

Thanks in Advance.

Glenn

[byte]

Moving this topic to the General Discussion forum, it is more appropriate there. Thanks!

[belyache]

I guess no one is running SME server on a PC with a Micro ATX motherboard!?

Glenn

[crazybob]

I am running SME 7.3 on Micro ATX motherboards, but I use AMD products. I usually use Gigabyte MB's, and have been such as GA-M61VME-S2 With a Sempron processor, and 512mb to 1GB ram. Add a couple of hard drives (PATA or SATA), a cd-rom if you want (or just temporaraly to load SME) and a second nic for server-gateway. Works great for small to medium offices.

I Like the micro-atx because I don't need to add a video adapter. I just turn down the amount of shared memory to allow most possible for the system.

Bob

[azche24]

Hi,

I guess no one is running SME server on a PC with a Micro ATX motherboard!?

Home-Server with MSI 6368 / PIII 800 for years now. Working fine.

[mort1504]

I use a MSI Q965MDO motherboard with Intel e6400 processor. It supports six SATAII drives (but the drives need to be jumpered to 150mb) and only has 1 pata port, which I use for the optical drive. It supports several raid structures using the six sata ports. I have also used the Biostar P4M800-M7A motherboard with an Intel 915 cpu. On the biostar board i used a SYBA sd-sata-4p card with 4 - 160gb sata drives to create a raid 5 software raid. It also works well and is inexpensive. :)

[compdoc]

A mainboard's form factor is not an issue. Theres no difference between mico-ATX and ATX except a few less slots and the onboard video.

Pretty much all chipsets are supported, and the onboard video isnt used in graphics mode, so Ive never seen one that didnt work with SME or other distros of this type.

The only real problem you might face is that Linux can have problems with some of the newer built-in ethernet controllers used in some chipsets. It just wont recognise some of them, although if you play with drivers, you might be able to get it up. And this isnt really an micro-atx/atx issue.

You can work around it with a pair of standard pci ethernet cards.