QUOTE(christineyoung @ Mar 6 2005, 05:59 PM)
This will not work with any 5V powered modchips ( aka X3, XChip, X-Lite, etc ) 100%.
This design using teh Standby 5V on LPC pin #6 which means when you make chnage sin BIOS or wnat to disable chip you must unplug power cord and reinsert to make changes.
Truely FALSE advertising by Xodus, as saying truly solderless and compatible with all 4th gen modchips.
As for the X3 and HDD/LAN leds, you can just run those wires directly to modchip and not use the header soldereding in 3 pins, but you will still be lacking 5V needed for it so, you will be curring a trace on white PCB and soldering a true 5V and not 5VSB to the modchips. Or not use them!
I find it interesting that you attempt to make a post sound knowledgeable, talking about the standby well, voltage requirements, and so forth.... yet I count, at a glance, at least a dozen grammatical and/or spelling mistakes, which is an impressive count for a mere 4-5 sentances! May I make a friendly suggestion that the next time you try to make a post "sound smart" you should perhaps start with a basic grasp of the language in which you're communicating. If english is not your first language, perhaps you should have someone more versed in the grammar review your statement before publicly humiliating yourself as such.
I find it even more interesting that this seemingly "informed" post contains such a drastic count of fallacies, misinformation, and ill-founded assumptions. I see that our competition has not been remiss in it's obligation of trying to downplay our superior design skills at every opportunity. They take advantage of every slight chance, no matter how absurd, to get an anti-Xodus word in edgewise.
If you had actually examined the design a bit further you would have, perhaps, noticed another reason that the X3 "won't work," that being the lack of the smbus pins. However, you would have likely noticed that there are a set of holes in place of where those smbus pins should be. A closer inspection might reveal that the pins of the adapter would fit nicely into these holes, or nicely out of them, in whatever configuration were required. The adapter pictured in the SPICE package is configured for a Xenium modchip, as it SHIPS WITH a Xenium modchip, and the assumption is that it is going to be used with that chip. Other configurations for other chips will, of course, be available.... For example, an X3 configuration with the smbus pins in the smbus pin spots, and the dreaded v1.6 5v standby-well power removed.
Yes, you heard me correctly, we've even taken the time to bother to design around the poor design skills of our competitors, solving their problems for them. They, instead, seem to choose to spend their time starting rumors, spreading misinformation, and trying to make themselves look good in spite of their own doings.
The fact that there is a 1.6 solderless solution should be cause for celebration, not trite attacks from competitors with no competing product.
At any rate, this is far more of a response then your original post warranted in the first place, so I'll be moving along now.
Thank you for your patronage,
--Artifex
