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Post by jhornbr225 on May 17, 2019 21:15:16 GMT -5
Woof?
Is she really that bad? I hear she has a great personality...
I have not timed it lately, but the Beelink in the car is probably taking 90 seconds. I'll have to time it again.
I do know that for some reason I can't get any Wifi signal in the car. I'm not sure if it's a driver issue again or not. I'm parked probably no more than 20 feet from the router. The PC is in an aluminium cage, encased in a metal dash. I might have to try an external USB wifi module, if I want to do any Windows updates.
I have noticed in my skin changes that I cut off part of the "Time Remaining" text. I probably made the song title too long. Also, in my attempt to make Album art larger, I shrunk the seek bar a little. It's really hard to pick a spot on the bar. Not that I do that much seeking in a song anyway.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 20, 2019 9:19:37 GMT -5
I ran the APi, playing music with Driveline on Windows 10 To Go a couple times over the weekend. It's not very stable. It's rebooted itself a few times. Locked up Driveline a few times. Locked up Windows a few times. Several times it was unresponsive, and I just had to pull the plug. I should try a fan on it though, to see if overheating is the reason why. I wouldn't think it's because Windows isn't activated.
If that does not prove to be stable, I'll have to investigate how to get some kind of Linux running on it. For some reason the eMMC was not showing up as bootable, even after I dd'ed the latest image from the Atomic Pi site.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 21, 2019 11:27:46 GMT -5
My BIOS chip programmer arrived yesterday. I opened the package to find... I was expecting Qty 2 of this... Ends up there were two different packages, a 2 piece and a 4 piece. I didn't order the 4 piece, thinking, "I don't need 4 Programmers". The 2 piece kit is the opposing corners of the bottom pic, the USB programmer and the SOIC8 clip. It ends up at least I should have received a USB programmer and the cable, not just the cable. I'm requesting a refund. Now I have to place another order, and wait longer to get the LattePanda working. Darn.
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Post by COMpulse on May 23, 2019 8:29:41 GMT -5
So, this Atomic Pi. I decided to think about powering it up. I could get out an old PSU, and my old ATX testing cable, and plug in a molex connector to the APi. But, what about long term? I ordered a 5v power brick and a barrel-to-molex converter. The converter is wired to the 12v pins of the molex, so I guess I'll need to chop that off and use an existing molex connector and wire it to the 5v pins.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 26, 2019 14:35:08 GMT -5
According to a recent video from ETA Prime, there is a terminal block next to the molex on the breakout board. It has both 12V and 5V inputs. He said both worked. He just used a barrel jack going to bare wires screwed into the terminal block.
On mine, today I downloaded lubuntu 18.04 straight from lububtu. It seemed to install to the eMMC OK, and it booted. I kept the SSD drive with the windows to go, but unplugged it for now. I might try to go with a VM and get Driveline working that way.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 28, 2019 7:42:39 GMT -5
I installed PlayOnLinux, a GUI based WINE front end. I then installed Windows Media Player. After some fiddling, it seems to work OK. I did find that it you use the upper right hand "X" to quit, that it won't restart. There is a "Task Manager", and I could see that it was still running, but was able to "End Process". PlayOnLinux has a "Close" button, and that seems to shut Windows Media Player down OK, and it's able to be restarted.
I'm still thinking about installing Virtualbox, and then installing WinXP, as I have installation media for that.
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Post by COMpulse on May 28, 2019 8:28:24 GMT -5
Is linux the OS you want to run? Or are you using Linux because Windows wasn't stable?
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 28, 2019 17:44:36 GMT -5
Yeah, not enough space, truly, for Windows. Not stable. I think it might either be a thermal thing, or not enough memory.
Linux is known to be lightweight, needing less memory.
Why? Do you have some ideas?
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Post by COMpulse on May 28, 2019 18:00:24 GMT -5
Monitor the thermals. If that's the cause, grab a few wood screws and mount a fan onto the heatsink (that's my plan anyway).
As for storage, the USB port is USB 3, so you could potentially run a fast USB SSD, unless there's some way to attach a SATA drive.
I thought the ad said this thing could run Windows 10?
I think we need some kind of cable/adapters for the wifi antennas too.
Once I'm done with my RPi mirror, I'll get my APi booted and see how it goes.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 28, 2019 20:53:59 GMT -5
Yes, I suppose I could monitor the thermals to see if it's throttling. 2GB of RAM is a little low on the specs for WIN10 I thought. I am using a Kingston A400 SSD in a SATA to USB3 enclosure, along with a USB3 Anker powered hub. If I remember correctly, the "Camera" port on the main board of the AtomicPi is actually a USB2 port. I could put my hub on that, for the mouse, keyboard, and USB soundcard, and let the USB3 be strictly for the SSD.
The A400 is not the fastest SSD out their either, but it got 83% 5 star reviews. And it's not bad at $30 for a 240GB. A Samsung EVO 860 Drive got 89% 5 Star reviews, at almost double the price.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 29, 2019 18:09:53 GMT -5
I do see that there is a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB that has read and write speeds of about 3500MB/s. And it's only $69.99. Of course since I don't have a M.2 NVMe slot on the AtomicPi, I'd have to put it in a USB3.x adapter. After some research last night, I found one where people were seeing consistent 1000 MB/s transfers, slower than the rated speed of the drive, but still faster than a normal SSD. Those adapters range from $12 to $70, but the one that looked good was $42. So that would be about $110 in a hard drive for a $38 computer.
And that's only if the Kingston Drive is causing the bottleneck. As I said, it could be thermal, or just the fact that there is only 2GB of RAM.
The AtomicPi can run WIN10, but how well? The RPi can also supposedly run WIN10, but it's unbearable to use, if you can get it to run at all. I tried, a couple weeks ago, but failed.
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Post by jhornbr225 on Jun 7, 2019 18:00:29 GMT -5
BIOS chip programmer arrived today. A little over two weeks since I ordered it, not bad. No time to play anytime soon though. Work is crazy, grass to mow, pool to get opened, cars to work on...
Time to research on how to write to this BIOS chip on the LattePanda, and bring it back to life.
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Post by COMpulse on Jun 24, 2019 7:59:46 GMT -5
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Post by jhornbr225 on Jun 24, 2019 11:53:24 GMT -5
You beat me to this on the Pi 4.
I did watch a video last night on the Atomic Pi from Novaspirit Tech. He installed Windows 10 Home on the built in eMMC. Sounds like he had the same lock up problems I had, but by adding a fan, was able to eliminate them.
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Post by COMpulse on Jun 28, 2019 8:46:06 GMT -5
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