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G4HDS - Got my Ticket way back in the 1970's Hopeing to get early retirement next summer then can buy the cottage in Scotland put up some big aerials, and forget all about BL!"£Y Computers... ViVa TopBand

Hi Nuted, Here's a link to the original maker's of this unit, the one show is the A603 viglen currently sell the A503!! ~Welcome to First International Computer, Inc.~ The (A603) supposedly have the AMD geode GX cpu inside, BUT cpuidz shows our units here (A503) to be fitted with a National Semiconductor Processor running at 400Mhz (possibly a Clone / Licensed Copy), or just what was fitted to the earlier production units..??? Normal off the shelf unit has 256Mb memory and 40Gb drive preloaded with xubuntu, not super fast!!! tried loading XP for (FUN) onto unit.... the word Ssssllooooowwwww comes to mind... But it seems an ideal candidate for PXE Booting ?? If only i can get an image for it. Regards Paul EOTAS PS 2X Client is looking Good :)

Hi Mike, Tryed the Viglen route!!, still awaiting a sensible reply from them. I asked them about Network Booting Issues, and they replied with a nice Email about how to install Unbuntu . So still awaiting the follow up response from them !! Regards Paul

Hi Mike, I bought a couple of these for test purposes, i got them with an 80Gig drive and 512Mb Plus a vesa Mount for £124 Ex per unit. Yes the Bios is accessible, and the unit does indeed network Boot. The problem is none of the images i have been able to load into it seem to support the Geode setup, they just hang during execution. Currently I'm trying out the 2X thinclient setup .... Regards Paul....

Hi All, Just Picked up a couple of these little beasts... http://www.viglen.co.uk/webmail/pdfs/MPC-l.pdf I am trying to get them to network boot, however most of the software I have tryed or looked at does'nt seem to support them . In fact trying to get them to boot from cd or hard drive is a problem, stuff like Wtware just hangs !!!. Any suggestions as to where i may get an image to load via TFTP, would be a great help, or just some info about the AMD GEODE cpu in this client would be great. Regards Paul EOTAS