[Wylug-discuss] Openbrick, storever - Has anyone used these?

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Aaron Crane wrote:

> Martyn writes:
> > VIA Sereniti Case (£45) - mini-itx.com*
>
> Watch out for those cases -- the PSU has a minimum power load.  At GBdirect,
> we had a box with that case, the fanless EPIA 5000 board, and nothing else,
> net-booting as an X terminal.  But it wouldn't stay up for more than a
> couple of minutes (or a few seconds once X started).  We 'fixed' the problem
> by hooking an old hard drive up to the power supply (but not the IDE
> connector).

Interesting. Also these cases are noisy. The PSU fan makes far too much
noise. I plan to find time to try and see what can be done to reduce the
noise level.