VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard + case?

[William Park]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > I remember seeing a thread here about VIA EPIA motherboards.  I'm also
> > interested in that board.  For those who has them, my questions are
> >     - can it boot from USB key drive?  (this is my main requirement)
> 
> There are a number of VIA EPIA boards.  My vanilla VIA EPIA can't boot from
> USB.  The BIOS says it can but, as with so many boards, it lied.  I've been
> using compact flash w/ a CF/IDE adapter.

Thanks Tim.  Is your model named just 'VIA EPIA' without -M, -TC, -MII,
-PD, -MS, -ML suffix?

Curiously, answers from sales people are always "Yes", but they usually
bring up Compact Flash somewhere in the reply.  Hmm...

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