VIA EPIA M9000

Published: June 9, 2003

Editor: Amber Lupala

Provider: VIA

Introduction

Date 2003-06-09
Provider: Via
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie

VIA EPIA M9000

This review is going to be really intresting since its my first Mini motherboard review. And thanx to Via I get a rocking board on top of it. I�ve read tons of review on this board and they all are good so we are going to see what we have to say about this. 17*17 cm says it all. This motherboard would work to mod into a car or a htpc or whatever your imagination says Let’s get this going……

About Via:

The VIA Platform Solutions Division (VPSD) is an autonomous new business unit established by VIA. It’s aim is to provide our customers with a complete set of innovative platform building blocks for building high quality, high performance servers, workstations, PCs, and Total Connectivity devices that meet the needs of all market segments. VPSD products include both mainboards and reference system designs such as the Information PC and InformationStation. Based on VIA’s industry-leading chipset technologies, they not only deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability, but also come with the most advanced features and technologies such as DDR266 SDRAM support. As a result, VPSD products help OEMs and System Integrators increase their competitiveness by speeding up product time to market and reducing validation cycles. To ensure the highest levels of quality, reliability, and compatibility, VPSD products undergo stringent testing during both the design and manufacturing phases and are built using top quality components. Boards are subjected to an extensive battery of stringent thermal, emissions, stress, environmental, signal quality, and BIOS functionality and compatibility tests across a full range of operating system platforms before being released for production. Manufacturing is carried out using state of the art equipment, and rigorous QA and QC procedures are applied at all stages of the production process.

VIA EPIA-M Mainboard Specification:

The ultimate platform for the next generation of innovative digital media devices and home entertainment centers. Processor – VIA C3/EDEN EBGA Processor

Chipset – VIA CLE266 North Bridge
- VT8235 South Bridge

System Memory – 1 DDR266 DIMM socket
- Up to 1GB memory size

VGA – Integrated VIA Unichrome AGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoder
Expansion Slots – 1 PCI
Onboard IDE – 2 X UltraDMA 133/100/66 Connector
Onboard Floppy – 1 x FDD Connector
Onboard LAN – VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY
Onboard Audio – VIA VT1616 6 channel AC’97 Codec
Onboard TV Out – VIA VT1622 TV out
Onboard 1394 – VIA VT6307S IEEE 1394 Firewire

Onboard I/O Connectors – 1 USB connectors for 2 additional USB 2.0 ports
- 2 1394 connectors for 2 1394 ports
- Front-panel audio connectors (Mic and Line Out)
- CD Audio-in connector
- SIR connector
- CIR connector
- Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on-Ring
- CPU/Sys FAN/Fan 3
- System intrusion connector
- 1 I2C connector
- 1 LVDS connector (Optional)
- Serial port connector for second com port

Back Panel I/O – 1 PS2 mouse port
- 1 PS2 keyboard port
- 1 Parallel
- 1 RJ-45 LAN port
- 1 Serial port
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- 1 VGA port
- 1 RCA port (SPDIF or TV out)
- 1 S-Video port
- 3 Audio jacks: line-out, line-in and mic-in; can be switched to 6 channel output

Application – VIA FliteDeck� Luxurious Utility
- MissionControl-H/W Monitoring, Remote SNMP management
- FlashPort-Live BIOS Flash
- SysProbe-Live DMI Browser

BIOS – Award BIOS
- 2/4Mbit flash memory

System Monitoring & Management – CPU voltage monitoring
- Wake-on-LAN, Keyboard-Power-on, Timer-Power-on- System power management
- AC power failure recovery

Form Factor – Mini-ITX (4 layer)
- 17 cm x 17 cm

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I was shocked when I got this board since I knew it was small… but this small? The box is nicely designed and on the back we find a picture of the motherboard and text that describes all that it has on it.

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In the box we found Ide cables, combined back plate with usb and firewire ports, manual, cd with drivers and the backplate for the ports themselves. As we can also see the motherboard is not alot bigger than the manual itself

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