Anyone know of a motherboard with the following specs

[Confused]

Hi all,

I'm after a P4/AMD Athlon/Athlon 64 motherboard (not fussed which) which complies to the following:

AGP slot
6x PCI slots
USB2
Firewire
Onboard LAN

And most importantly, it must switch off EVERYTHING (other than RAM and possibly USB) when going into Standby.

I'm going to be using this in the car, and I need it to turn off hard drives, PCI cards, graphics card fan, CPU fan, chipset fan, power supply...everything.

If anyone has a motherboard which they KNOW does that, then please let me know.


Thanks in advance


Confused

 

[Tiorapatea]

Ok, I don't really know but I couldn't resist posting, sorry. How about the Epox 8RDA+?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Only one I found doing a quick search Hope this helps I have no idea what it'll shut off though

 

[Tiorapatea]

Originally posted by: Confused
And most importantly, it must switch off EVERYTHING (other than RAM and possibly USB) when going into Standby.
Confused

By "Standby", do you mean Suspend-to-RAM? The Epox will do this and has all the other specs.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I think he is more concerned with not draining the battery?

 

[Confused]

Yes, I do mean Suspend-To-RAM. My power supply supports this, and it's much better to have a <5 second resume (as happens with my Via Epia board, but I need more PCI slots!) than waiting for it to resume from hibernate, or boot up from scratch!

In STR it should use <100mA (like my Epia does), but to do that it must turn everything off! USB is OK to be left on, as I have a USB GPS receiver, and when it's powered, it keep a fix, so it's much quicker to start navigation!

I'll have a look at the 8RDA+, and see what it can do (Unless someone here has an 8RDA+ and they can ensure that everything switches off when going into S3 STR to save me buying it! )


Cheers!

Confused

 

[Tiorapatea]

OK Confusion, I'm sure someone with this board will help with this, although the precise details of what is being powered may be hard to determine.

Thought you might like a look at this thread on arstechnica that has some good generic tips (not Epox-specific). It seems there are pre-OS-install issues that you may need to be aware of.

 

[Tiorapatea]

I sure hope this works out for you. The trouble is that decent BIOS support for ACPI is very hard to come by in desktop motherboards; whilst SFF-style motherboards are likely better, they will clearly not have six PCI slots. It may well be that you can get *enough* support to get the job done, however.

Thinking about this some more, I would generally expect an Intel platform to be superior in this regard. I run an Abit NF7-S Rev2 under Linux and I have to say there have been many BIOS issues related to ACPI-support and I am not even talking about power management - just basic IRQ assignment stuff for which there are now a plethora of workarounds in the Linux kernel. No doubt these workarounds are also present in Windows, which will obviously be more polished in this kind of area.

More generally, regardless of the BIOS issues, the result will also depend on the degree of ACPI-support of your peripheral devices, i.e. the kind of power states that they support etc..

Good luck! Sounds like you have an interesting application going on there in your car...