Apologies for the harsh lighting. This consists of a Nikon SB24 on manual set to 1/16th power, positioned to the above right, too close. On the left is a small Lastolite reflector to try and fill the otherwise solid shadows. Exposure on the Nikon CP995 was manually set to f7.5 at 1/500 (notice the fan blade movement).
This is my EPIA M10000, running open on the bench. Accompanying is the 200GB WD hard drive, and the unscrewed little power supply from a VIA Sereniti 2000 case (very small psu indeed).
The fan on this EPIA M10000 was going noisy, so I took it off to make it better. In doing so, I let the screw on the inside corner of the fan flop over which let the screwdriver hit the mainboard (not very powerfully). This seems to have resulted in the EPIA now not being able to put a video image to the monitor port.
It does, however, send a correctly syncing video frame to the monitor port, only there’s no actual image content in there now. I can get a video output to the RCA jack over composite, and see it on the telly, but my X11 isn’t configured for telly output.
Also, once I had the fan off, I managed to rip the blade moulding from the pin that it was mounted on, instead of popping it off as expected. So now, it’s basically balancing — it spins if it’s balanced centrally but one touch and it just capsizes.
Pointing to roughly where the screwdriver point landed on the mainboard (I wasn’t really watching).