The BIOS
As with all ASRock motherboards, the A330ION uses the American Megatrends BIOS, a tabbed BIOS for easy navigation. I was a little surprised, though I guess I shouldn’t have been, but this BIOS looked no different from any other ASRock Intel board’s BIOS. I guess I was expecting something a little different since the Atom isn’t your average processor.
The Main menu has date/time, BIOS version, and CPU information. It also displays the memory found by the system.
Again, the OC Tweaker menu looks just like any other one. ASRock has given you the capability of overclocking the Atom 330. I’m sorry, with the stock cooling, the Atom is idling in the low 40s in this nearly cold room…I won’t be doing any overclocking today.
The Advanced menu contains several submenus that have most of the remainder of the board’s settings.
Not much on the CPU Configuration submenu, I’m accustomed to 8-12 different settings. Same with the Chipset Settings submenu.
The Hardware Monitor shows temps, fan speeds, and voltages. It also contains some settings for the CPU_fan and chassis fan connectors.
The Boot menu contains submenus for Boot settings, and HDD/ODD priorities. The Boot Configuration submenu is where you disable the splash screen if you don’t care for them.
You use up two USB ports with a mouse AND a keyboard dongle? Just get a bluetooth dongle and bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Proprietary wireless dongles for mice and keyboards devices is a waste IMHO.
You use up two USB ports with a mouse AND a keyboard dongle? Just get a bluetooth dongle and bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Proprietary wireless dongles for mice and keyboards devices is a waste IMHO.
1st the fan you say, isn't on the CPU it's on the chipset, none of the atom mini-itx mobo's i used had a CPU fan..
2nd the Sata ports on the back aren't just for Sata only.
2 x Powered eSATAII/USB Connectors (as advertised in their Site)
they can be used for either Sata or USB, ..
fact is that with a special cable you can take from that port both Sata connection needed + the power for a laptop drive.. so in one of those ports you can connect a 2,5inch HDD & power it at the same time. So you have 6 usb at the back not 4 as you thought 🙂
1st the fan you say, isn't on the CPU it's on the chipset, none of the atom mini-itx mobo's i used had a CPU fan..
2nd the Sata ports on the back aren't just for Sata only.
2 x Powered eSATAII/USB Connectors (as advertised in their Site)
they can be used for either Sata or USB, ..
fact is that with a special cable you can take from that port both Sata connection needed + the power for a laptop drive.. so in one of those ports you can connect a 2,5inch HDD & power it at the same time. So you have 6 usb at the back not 4 as you thought 🙂
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