Switch Systems Blog

This week we got hands-on with Intel's new ultra low power processor - the ATOM - a 45nm processor with 47 million transistors. Clocked at 1.6ghz, the Atom230 has an FSB of 533mhz, and consumes about 60W under full load.

The mini ITX motherboard we have has a single DDR2 memory slot, two SATA ports, IDE, built in VGA + Sound + Network.

• The processor is under the top heatsink - passivly cooled! The other heatsink+fan arrangement is over the 945G northbridge.
• The motherboard and CPU combo cost us £32 exVAT, leaving only a HDD, PSU and RAM to worry about

PC Perspective and ArsTechnica have comparisons of it against VIA's upcoming 'NANO' processor, but Intel have already hit the retail market whilst VIA's offering is claimed to be with us sometime this autumn.

Watch this space to find out what we've done with our ATOMs!

It has been reported that hotfix 948110 is causing problems with sharepoint - problems that will prevent the service from running (so your companyweb site will be down!)

If you have already installed this hotfix AND the MSSQL$SHAREPOINT service is not starting you can perform the following steps to fix this service.

1. Rename C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$SHAREPOINT\Binn to Binn.old
2. Restore C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$SHAREPOINT\Binn from a backup taken previous to installing hotfix 948110. If you do not have a backup try using volume shadow copy.
3. Start the MSSQL$SHAREPOINT service
4. Test CompanyWeb

I guess that explains the emails I received this morning - Alert on SBS01 at 10/07/2008 03:02:47
MSSQL$Sharepoint service is Stopped.
This service is required as the backend for your SharePoint based Intranet.