Thanks to Genesi and Phinixi.com

[gary_c]

Interesting cases. Especially this one

Is that the cardboard one? Yeah, I thought that was pretty amazing. Sometimes the boxes things come in are more interesting than the stuff they contain. I guess somebody took that idea and ran with it. But if you had much humidity in your house it could get pretty messy.

-- gary_c

[zacman]

>My board doesn't have a riser; but I guess it
>depends on which version you get.

Every board has a riser slot. However the boards
don't ship with a riser card. But you can get a
standard riser card which does also work on the
Pegasos in every better PC shop.

[Vincent]

@gary_c

Yup it's the cardboard one.  It's... erm... interesting :-D

Better make sure a heatsink and fan'll fit in there aswell or it'll be a bit crispy :-D

[Dietmar]

>it has to be ECC and Registered right?

There is a memory list/faq with tested modules on morphzone.  Personally, I just bought a no-name 256MB module from the next dealer, and it works perfectly. Ironically, the registered module that came with the board failed to work. If you have a tolerant local dealer (with a good return policy), and they still have SD-RAM, why not give it a try?

[Madgun68]

There is a memory list/faq with tested modules on morphzone. Personally, I just bought a no-name 256MB module from the next dealer, and it works perfectly. Ironically, the registered module that came with the board failed to work. If you have a tolerant local dealer (with a good return policy), and they still have SD-RAM, why not give it a try?

That's similar to what happened to me. I bought a ECC/Registered 512Mb module off the internet. While it works, it only recognises half of the memory. Not wanting to use half of what I paid for, I swapped it for the PC-133 256Mb module in my PC.. Worked perfectly.

Strange how that works.. :-o

[Samuar]

Right, I'll try my normal SDRAM first then. Thanks for the information.

[magnetic]

Welcome to the family guys!
 Enjoy your peg! You are going to love it/

[Cymric]

@Piru:

What an odd vertical contraption for AGP and PCI cards... Why is this necessary? And why is there such an odd little PCB in the outermost PCI slot? (Forgive me if these questions have a high 'duh!' level, but I don't know the Pegasos, and it looks rather odd.)

[takemehomegrandma]

Would be interesting to know if these "phree" boards are with or without Aprils?

[Lando]

takemehomegrandma wrote:
Would be interesting to know if these "phree" boards are with or without Aprils?

It was already announced that they are sans-April - that is why the offer came about.  Genesi had a bunch of non-April'd boards which had been traded in by customers upgrading to April.  

Rather than have these boards just sitting around doing nothing, Genesi generously said they would give them away for free to people interested in developing for MOS.

[Piru]

What an odd vertical contraption for AGP and PCI cards... Why is this necessary?

It's not. It's there to allow placing the motherboard into very thin case. Normally the PCI and AGP cards add lots of height to the machine, and if you want to place the mobo + gfxcard + few pci cards into very small case such riser cards is necessary to get the cards vertical.

And why is there such an odd little PCB in the outermost PCI slot?

It routes some of the needed signals of the 2nd PCI slot to the riser card. So that is part of the riser card, not Pegasos itself.

[bbrv]

We are pleased to be making these Phree Phoenix boards available.  Best wishes to all of you and welcome!

:-D

R&B   :-)

[Samuar]

Just a small question, probably wont take long to address: where is the soft power on pins, for me to connect my power button from the front of the ATX case to. I'm a bit too comfy with x86s, so I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks,

Samuar

[Lando]

Samuar wrote:
Just a small question, probably wont take long to address: where is the soft power on pins, for me to connect my power button from the front of the ATX case to. I'm a bit too comfy with x86s, so I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks,

Samuar

Last two pins on the right as you look at the board with the ports at the front (the pins farthest from the edge of the board).  Next left is the reset and then power LED and HDD LED.

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[blubbe]

Just got the Peggy
Thank you Genesi and Phinixi.com !

Cant wait to get it up and running..

Leif

[Samuar]

Thanks Lando.

By the way, which part of Manchester u living in?