Dead sn25p help!

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last night i flashed my sn25p with the lastest bios, the flash went fine, rebooted fine, i went into the bios to check it, that was fine, rebooted again and now all that happens is it powers on, the fans go, but it dosnt post!!

i have pressed the insert key, pushed the reset button on the back, taken out the battery, dissconnected all devices, swapped memory, taken power plug out, swapped over onbaord jumper for cmos,

anything else, i hope its not borked cus im guessing its only 1year warranty from ocuk!!?? if it is dead, then im selling it on ebay(as dead) and going conroe, amd stuff sucks!!!!
 
This happened with me.. turned out the flash had somehow killed the hard drive :rolleyes:

Any chance you could try a friends hard drive? The only other advice I could give is clear the CMOS and hopefully it will ressurect
 
thanks for reply, i dont think its the hdd, i have a raptor, and another in my system, seems that the bios chip is nakered, i think i should have cleared the cmos before the flash.

but i have sent off for a new bios chip from www.badbiosflash.com it works out at aboout £8 for a pre-flashed chip with the latest bios, not too bad?

but if that dosnt solve it, its going to get run over in my truck!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

then i will go to conroe! this has happened 4 times now, the sn25p is crap, but could be good if shuttle were consistant with their quality, but then again verything these days everything is made by fat yanks or small people!! (offence intended)
 
...worth checking out the hard drive, mine was new when it happened ( :mad: )

I just got a SN27P2 (AMD based) because the next conroe Shuttle still seems to have teething problems, and my AMD one is super slick.. and that's the truth from a person who used to be intel-only :)
 
so far i have swapped out the memory, cpu, hard disk, cdrom.

im getting a green light all the time on the motherboard, so im guessing the motherboard isnt dead, but im still waiting on this new bios chip coming in the post.

has anyone else had success with just puting a new bios chip in, and all was well, non of the reset bios options work atall.
 
Well I know a few people who've replaced their BIOS chips and it's "just worked" :)

As for future flashing.. take a look at www.xpcbios.com, it's a downloadable CDROM ISO image which flashes the BIOS when you boot

...it really is much safer than using Awardflash/WinFlash
 
I finally got the new bios chip through, but it still wont boot!!!

its about 6months out of warranty!! im really annoyed cus i just bought a x2 4600 and 2gb mushkin memory!

has anyone else got any more things i could try, this is driving me mad, i dont have any more money to spend out for a motherboard which im told is over £100 :eek:

please if anyone can help then let me know your wisdom.

:( :( :( :(
 
Only thing I can suggest is take the whole Shuttle ap art, rebuild make sure everything is 100%. Have the new bios chip installed and try again. If not, try old bios chip, reset CMOS and try it that way. If you're still not having any luck..

Try booting up the pc with just bare min. Motherboard, Graphics card, one stick of ram.CPU. See how it goes?
 
something weird is going on here, i just completly stripped the entire shuttle to bits, removed the motherboard, then put it all back together again.

put in the cpu, 1 stick of mem, gcard, and it booted up :eek:

so i thought, arh its fixed, great, so i plugged in the hard drives and fixed it all up, but it didnt boot like before! so i took out the hard drives and got it back to the spec where it booted, now it wont boot, and also the motherboard seems to have lost power because the green light isnt on the board anymore WTF is going on here, its consuming my life aarrrhh stupid thing.
 
Okay, so we're almost there. :)

Take it to bits again. Lay the motherboard on a table with a peice of cardboard or paper underneath. Then try again. Once you've got it to boot up again. Connect one device at a time. So, do this;

Connect:

Mobotherboard,
Graphics card,
CPU,
One stick of ram.,
PSU.

Boot it up.

Then connect one hard drive.

Boot it up again.

Then connect CD Drive,

Boot up again. When it stops booting up, you will know where the problem lies. ;)

Good luck.
 
thanks for the reply :) but since last night it now seems its terminal, no fans spinning, no motherboard light and nothing i do can solve that now :(

i did strip it down again just now, and put it all back together, to try to relight its fire!

such a (EDIT: all women) that i did all that work last night, got it going, then it complelty died shortly after, it was just teasing me, god dam shuttles!! soo unstable.

but there might be good news on the horizon, i contacted shuttle and they said that even though ocuk give one years warranty(well i think they do anyway??) shuttle said they give 2, so im still within that cus i have had it 15 months.

So ive contacted ocuk for an rma, i just hope it all gets sorted because i have been without my system now for over 3 weeks, and i need to play some decent games like Darkstar One, back to the day of Privateer hopefully.

anyway, thanks for you effort.
 
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Well, OcUK won't help you has they have a 12 month warranty. Not a 48 month warranty.

Seems like it might've died due to static, who knows? :(

Also, you have a sweary in the post. Edit, quick, before Dons get here. :)

Good Luck with the RMA. :cool:
 
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