Mini-ITX has no watchdog?

Sep 05, 2003 3 Replies
J

Hi, I've looked at the docs for all three flavors of VIA mini-ITX motherboards and it appears none of them have a watchdog timer. I thought this was interesting, since the mini-ITX boards are geared partially towards things like kiosk applications... places where a watchdog would be useful if the application(s) hung.



Does anyone have hands-on experience with the VIA boards to confirm that there is no watchdog? Also, there is at least one other manufacturer building mini-ITX boards; do any of them have watchdogs?



thanks, Jonathan


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J

Correct, no watchdog.

JK micro will be coming out with an auxilliary board for the EPIA and EPIA-M boards. It will implement an ATX power supply that takes a

8-30VDC input, 2 compact flash slots and watchdog. Contact snipped-for-privacy@jkmicro.com for more information. We'll also have a cute Linux release that fits nicely in a 16meg CF card.
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K

VIA falls short in many regards. It looks like a reasonable alternative is coming.

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The spec sheet lists a software configurable watchdog with one to 255 second period.

--kyler

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R

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Interesting board, but unfortunately a totally different price legue. I contacted them, they estimate about 350 Euro for the board without CPU.

Rob

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