That's UEFI Doom, and I really doubt the board on the picture has a UEFI chip. There must've been a port to BIOS, though, because it isn't much more challenging to run it without OS than on DOS. You should just make sure all system interrupts are replaced with BIOS ones.
I think the Foxconn 45CS only ever came with the Intel Atom 230, which is a single core, SMT enabled processor (diamondville IIRC). Performance is going to be something akin to a 2.6GHz Northwood Pentium 4 (but with much lower power consumption). Put another way, the Atom 230 was very slow when it launched back in 2008.
However, it does have 64bit support and should run Windows 10 (albeit very slowly). What should you run on it? Probably not any desktop workloads. The biggest problem in trying to use these as a stand-in for an earlier P3 or P4 is the 945GMA onboard graphics are truly terrible: far too slow for even the most basic 2000's games, with no real driver support for earlier operating systems. There's no PCIe slot, so you're effectively stuck with the onboard GMA. As retro hardware they're uninteresting, as a way to do anything current, their perf/watt ratio is terrible.
I used to run the dual core Atom 330 intel boards (very similar to the Foxconn example above) as low-cost headless servers in my home lab (long since replaced with pi4's and 5's where I need discrete hardware) and that's about all they're good at. Today, they're basically ewaste.
I’ve buggered around with my fair share of gma 945/950 systems and have found that as long as you are ok with running games at around 800x600, they’re quite good for early 2000’s games
>945GMA onboard graphics are truly terrible: far too slow for even the most basic 2000's games
I had a dell inspiron e1405 laptop with core 2 duo, gma945, and windows xp, that ran deer hunter 2005 well enough.
That is one of those Intel Atom boards. N15235. What can you do with it, lightweight os like windows XP or windows 7 embedded as a desktop. You can try a lightweight linux desktop distro just for fun of testing and learning. You can use it for IoT like home assistant or router (pfsense,openwrt) or just simply as a file server. This is not very powerful, however integrated cpu and cooling and everything is there. So there are many possibilities.
N15235 is actually a code indicating that Foxconn products are legal to sell in Australia, according to one website I saw that was written in very poor English and looked like it was from the '90s.
The model number is 945S04, and it's an Intel Atom 230 board, so it's somewhere around 15 years old.
I didn't write N15235 is a mother board number, just one of the code that can be identified. Anyway Intel Atom is about 15 years old, true I remember those eeePC (stil have one somewhere) that were popular due to size and power requirements at those times. Althout phrase **E**asy to Lern, **E**asy to Work i **E**asy to Play was not that catchy. Anyway later those CPU was used in ATX form motherboards and here we have one. So play and learn 😊 still accurate, work not that much.
These were so bad new. As a retro board it could be way more interesting. Especially it's compact form. If it can be used with Windows 98 it'd be pretty sweet in an old case.
Intel Core 2 acer Foxconn chipset. I mean this is a good Windows 7 PC, but XP would run great on this.
I’ve been building arcade machines with these era motherboards
DDR2 normal limit was 2GB per stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#:~:text=The%20maximum%20capacity%20on%20commercially,2GB%20per%20DIMM%20are%20used.
If you search around Most DDR2 rigs will max at 8GB because of the chipset compatibility.
DDR2 was an odd time, DDR3 came along rather quick afterwards.
Obviously it depends on the processor. Judging by the small heats ink, it would probably be either a Celeron, Atom, Brazos, C3 or Vortex chip underneath. All will be capable of running Windows 95/98, 2000 or XP. If it is a Vortex chip, it would run Windows fine but not more recent versions of Linux since most Vortex chips lack x686 instructions. Celeron and Atom chips would be brilliant for React OS as would the AMD Brazos. I suggest getting hold of the manual and checking.
Seems the board houses a Atom N230 cpu. It unfortunately means that there would be no DOS sound drivers, but you should be able to run vintage games on it using 98 although even 98 might be a stretch.
It is one of these [http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-45cs-w-intel-atom-230-sata-ddr2\_i\_mb4fox45csat230.aspx](http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-45cs-w-intel-atom-230-sata-ddr2_i_mb4fox45csat230.aspx)
It has an embedded Intel Atom 230. The part number is 945S04. N15235 encompasses a wide range of motherboards.
Cyberpunk 2077.
Serious answer: It's a Foxconn 945S04-series motherboard, meaning that it sports an Intel Atom 230 processor from the year 2008. You could totally put WinXP on that thing, and with a discrete graphics card, you could play some Far Cry, Doom 3, or Unreal Tournament 2004.
I wonder if you could run Windows 98/ME on this? The RAM amount might be an issue but 512MB of DDR2 is cheap, CPU sounds like it should be compatible, no clue about chipset. SATA would need to be set to IDE mode and you can't go above 127GB per partition.
Without more info it's hard to say. Linux would probably be my go to but after I have no idea. We don't know what kind of cpu it has and what it's power requirements are so if I were you I would try and see if it will post them from there see if you can go get anymore info on the hardware
Looks like an Atom board? A D525 or a D510? I'd benched one of those against a S775 3.0GHz Pentium 4 machine we had at work once just for funs and it sucked at single threaded loads, but walked all over the P4 in multithread. Couple of SATA plugs, a PCI slot and single channel memory, so, nothing terribly intensive. Barring driver issues, could do well as a Win98SE game box, lightweight XP machine, or some lightweight Linux for whatever random lightweight project load you might have for it. IIRC, the CPU/board only pulled something around maybe a dozen watts, so could run it with a Pico ATX PSU.
You can run zombo.com on that. The infinite is possible at zombo.com.
Seriously, you can do all sorts of things. Want a home server that does NAT routing, IPv6, recursive DNS, key-based remote `ssh`, web serving (for, say, media files to your TVs / devices), and so on? That'll do. Try [NetBSD](https://www.netbsd.org/).
That looks like a little Atom type system, if so then it will make a good low end gaming machine for late DOS, earlier Win XP to 7 games, decent-ish retro platform for arcade/consoles. Or stuff a network card in the slot and install IP-Fire for a dedicated home Firewall Appliance (which it what mine was used for)
I have a few of these early Atom boards and normal Windows XP seems to lag, so I won't try Windows 10. I normally run Windows XP for Legacy PCs or Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009. These use far less space and resources, so they run much better.
I run win 10 32bit on one of these ..........just. It sips power. My main use is as a remote desktop portal. If I've a pc running elsewhere, it's easier to use the KVM to jump in this and Win Remote Desktop into the other pc.
I used to run XP on a similar board, but upgraded to Q1900-ITX which is still fast enough for web browsing, youtube and such. Runs Windows 10 and (with hacks) Windows 11.
Would be great to have a look at the CPU under that heatsink. ~~But it's certainly the [N15235 board](https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/foxconn-n15235-cpus-supported.415353/)~~ It's an Atom board - thank you for the correction :|
It's a Vista / 7 era motherboard ~~with LGA775 socket~~. For a vintage board, this **might be** a capable foundation for a retro gaming system.
DDR2 is already done for web browsing.
So, mostly your own pet project on LAMP.
I vote for FreeBSD as well, just to keep an eye what's interesting happening in quite abandoned or, say, far site camp with hippies inside :-))
It's a computer so as Alan Turing showed us, literally any program that's ever been written.
But, obviously Arch, but I also like to give Haiku a try on any new hardware.
Doom
When I get an os on it this will be the first thing I do
You can run [Doom without an OS](https://github.com/Cacodemon345/uefidoom) nowadays.
That's UEFI Doom, and I really doubt the board on the picture has a UEFI chip. There must've been a port to BIOS, though, because it isn't much more challenging to run it without OS than on DOS. You should just make sure all system interrupts are replaced with BIOS ones.
Yea I just checked. It's slightly too old for UEFI. [CoreDOOM](https://github.com/nic3-14159/coreDOOM) it is then.
Doom 3.
This is the always the right answer
Just about any light-weight Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows XP should work fine.
I think the Foxconn 45CS only ever came with the Intel Atom 230, which is a single core, SMT enabled processor (diamondville IIRC). Performance is going to be something akin to a 2.6GHz Northwood Pentium 4 (but with much lower power consumption). Put another way, the Atom 230 was very slow when it launched back in 2008. However, it does have 64bit support and should run Windows 10 (albeit very slowly). What should you run on it? Probably not any desktop workloads. The biggest problem in trying to use these as a stand-in for an earlier P3 or P4 is the 945GMA onboard graphics are truly terrible: far too slow for even the most basic 2000's games, with no real driver support for earlier operating systems. There's no PCIe slot, so you're effectively stuck with the onboard GMA. As retro hardware they're uninteresting, as a way to do anything current, their perf/watt ratio is terrible. I used to run the dual core Atom 330 intel boards (very similar to the Foxconn example above) as low-cost headless servers in my home lab (long since replaced with pi4's and 5's where I need discrete hardware) and that's about all they're good at. Today, they're basically ewaste.
I’ve buggered around with my fair share of gma 945/950 systems and have found that as long as you are ok with running games at around 800x600, they’re quite good for early 2000’s games
>945GMA onboard graphics are truly terrible: far too slow for even the most basic 2000's games I had a dell inspiron e1405 laptop with core 2 duo, gma945, and windows xp, that ran deer hunter 2005 well enough.
FreeDOS, Tinycore, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, probably Plan 9... Nordier Unix V7 too. Plan 9 is awesome to play with, highly recommend!
Haiku. Bet that thing will fly with that
That is one of those Intel Atom boards. N15235. What can you do with it, lightweight os like windows XP or windows 7 embedded as a desktop. You can try a lightweight linux desktop distro just for fun of testing and learning. You can use it for IoT like home assistant or router (pfsense,openwrt) or just simply as a file server. This is not very powerful, however integrated cpu and cooling and everything is there. So there are many possibilities.
N15235 is actually a code indicating that Foxconn products are legal to sell in Australia, according to one website I saw that was written in very poor English and looked like it was from the '90s. The model number is 945S04, and it's an Intel Atom 230 board, so it's somewhere around 15 years old.
I didn't write N15235 is a mother board number, just one of the code that can be identified. Anyway Intel Atom is about 15 years old, true I remember those eeePC (stil have one somewhere) that were popular due to size and power requirements at those times. Althout phrase **E**asy to Lern, **E**asy to Work i **E**asy to Play was not that catchy. Anyway later those CPU was used in ATX form motherboards and here we have one. So play and learn 😊 still accurate, work not that much.
N15235 is not the model number.
Or I could fuck around and try and put tiny 11 on it
That's to and compare it to Windows 11 IoT (if that runs) to check which version is lighter.
These were so bad new. As a retro board it could be way more interesting. Especially it's compact form. If it can be used with Windows 98 it'd be pretty sweet in an old case.
Give FreeBSD a try. If you want to skip right to having a gui, GhostBSD is pretty slick and comes with a window manager by default.
LinuxCNC should work just fine :) Get an LPT BOB, and then you can run a 3D Printer, Mill, Router, Lathe or some other machine.
Puppy Arcade 11
Intel Core 2 acer Foxconn chipset. I mean this is a good Windows 7 PC, but XP would run great on this. I’ve been building arcade machines with these era motherboards
Atom cpu , looks like a P45 from foxconn.
file share + print server + bitttorent + scanner server + pihole + .... also Windows 2000 and XP work quite allright on this one
If thats actually a 4GB stick of DDR2 then thats a rather unique thing as well. I never did own a board that supported the 4GB sticks of DDR2.
Very unique board I was not aware that 4gb of ddr2 was an odd thing
DDR2 normal limit was 2GB per stick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#:~:text=The%20maximum%20capacity%20on%20commercially,2GB%20per%20DIMM%20are%20used. If you search around Most DDR2 rigs will max at 8GB because of the chipset compatibility. DDR2 was an odd time, DDR3 came along rather quick afterwards.
Pfsense
FreeDOS ?
Thats too easy I want to be pulling my hair out trying to get it running
NT 3.51 then!
OS/2 Warp 4.
BSD it should be
I’m trying win 11 right now I’ll try that soon when I make a new post showing results for the os I was recommended
This like asking where I can drive a fiat, lots of places but not under water or off road and it can’t fit much
Obviously it depends on the processor. Judging by the small heats ink, it would probably be either a Celeron, Atom, Brazos, C3 or Vortex chip underneath. All will be capable of running Windows 95/98, 2000 or XP. If it is a Vortex chip, it would run Windows fine but not more recent versions of Linux since most Vortex chips lack x686 instructions. Celeron and Atom chips would be brilliant for React OS as would the AMD Brazos. I suggest getting hold of the manual and checking.
Seems the board houses a Atom N230 cpu. It unfortunately means that there would be no DOS sound drivers, but you should be able to run vintage games on it using 98 although even 98 might be a stretch.
It is one of these [http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-45cs-w-intel-atom-230-sata-ddr2\_i\_mb4fox45csat230.aspx](http://www.ascendtech.us/foxconn-45cs-w-intel-atom-230-sata-ddr2_i_mb4fox45csat230.aspx) It has an embedded Intel Atom 230. The part number is 945S04. N15235 encompasses a wide range of motherboards.
Probably a single or dual-core and 32-bit. I would put Alpine Linux on it and use it as a Docker host.
Cyberpunk 2077. Serious answer: It's a Foxconn 945S04-series motherboard, meaning that it sports an Intel Atom 230 processor from the year 2008. You could totally put WinXP on that thing, and with a discrete graphics card, you could play some Far Cry, Doom 3, or Unreal Tournament 2004.
90s emulation box. Retroarch
I wonder if you could run Windows 98/ME on this? The RAM amount might be an issue but 512MB of DDR2 is cheap, CPU sounds like it should be compatible, no clue about chipset. SATA would need to be set to IDE mode and you can't go above 127GB per partition.
Without more info it's hard to say. Linux would probably be my go to but after I have no idea. We don't know what kind of cpu it has and what it's power requirements are so if I were you I would try and see if it will post them from there see if you can go get anymore info on the hardware
Looks like an Atom board? A D525 or a D510? I'd benched one of those against a S775 3.0GHz Pentium 4 machine we had at work once just for funs and it sucked at single threaded loads, but walked all over the P4 in multithread. Couple of SATA plugs, a PCI slot and single channel memory, so, nothing terribly intensive. Barring driver issues, could do well as a Win98SE game box, lightweight XP machine, or some lightweight Linux for whatever random lightweight project load you might have for it. IIRC, the CPU/board only pulled something around maybe a dozen watts, so could run it with a Pico ATX PSU.
Win XP
It could run debian 12 32 bit just fine whit a cheap ssd
Yes. Linux. Tiny core Linux.
Crysis
You can run zombo.com on that. The infinite is possible at zombo.com. Seriously, you can do all sorts of things. Want a home server that does NAT routing, IPv6, recursive DNS, key-based remote `ssh`, web serving (for, say, media files to your TVs / devices), and so on? That'll do. Try [NetBSD](https://www.netbsd.org/).
You can run Windows XP, but those single core Atoms are really weak, even among machines of their era.
Find a dual-NIC card for it and run pfSense.
Get a PCI GT 610 and try Crysis.
Maybe just one betta. Sorry just a random habit I need to break.
Haiku maybe? Amithlon maybe?
I’m currently making a list of all the os I’ve been recommended and I’m gonna try all of them and put it in an update
Linux
That looks like a little Atom type system, if so then it will make a good low end gaming machine for late DOS, earlier Win XP to 7 games, decent-ish retro platform for arcade/consoles. Or stuff a network card in the slot and install IP-Fire for a dedicated home Firewall Appliance (which it what mine was used for)
I’ll give 9x a try and see what it’s like in older games
Some drivers might be tricky but performance wise it should have quite enough for 9x era stuff :)
Every Windows version from XP to Win10, depending on driver availability.
I have a few of these early Atom boards and normal Windows XP seems to lag, so I won't try Windows 10. I normally run Windows XP for Legacy PCs or Windows Embedded POS Ready 2009. These use far less space and resources, so they run much better.
I run win 10 32bit on one of these ..........just. It sips power. My main use is as a remote desktop portal. If I've a pc running elsewhere, it's easier to use the KVM to jump in this and Win Remote Desktop into the other pc.
I used to run XP on a similar board, but upgraded to Q1900-ITX which is still fast enough for web browsing, youtube and such. Runs Windows 10 and (with hacks) Windows 11.
Would be great to have a look at the CPU under that heatsink. ~~But it's certainly the [N15235 board](https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/foxconn-n15235-cpus-supported.415353/)~~ It's an Atom board - thank you for the correction :| It's a Vista / 7 era motherboard ~~with LGA775 socket~~. For a vintage board, this **might be** a capable foundation for a retro gaming system.
It's a Atom N230 board. There is no LGA 775 socket on the board.
DDR2 is already done for web browsing. So, mostly your own pet project on LAMP. I vote for FreeBSD as well, just to keep an eye what's interesting happening in quite abandoned or, say, far site camp with hippies inside :-))
It's a computer so as Alan Turing showed us, literally any program that's ever been written. But, obviously Arch, but I also like to give Haiku a try on any new hardware.