I have an IBM thinkpad T21 working as a frontend and displaying out to my TV. It works as running off the CD only, but just to the LCD screen. I order to get it to run off the hard drive and to be able to display out to the TV via the S-Video port I was able to use a nice utility called S3Switch. (Thanks to Tim Roberts.)

http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

I just thought I'd post this incase anyone else was thinking of using a T21 (or similar) as a frontend.

I still have some issue to workout, but I don't think those have to do with hardware, but rather settings / configuration that I need to figure out.

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Case: GD01-MX
MB: Intel DG965WH
CPU: Intel Q6700
Mem: 4GB
HDD: Hitachi 1TB
Tuner: none/PVR-350
GFx: Nvidia XFX 7600 GS
Audio: on board
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Evo 510 SFF w/ Nvida 6200
Remote: ATI Remote Wonder w/ kernel mod fix.