Shuttle mobo dead ??

Kezmo · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:09

m8s shuttle was randomly locking up , which got to the point where he couldnt even get into windows and couldnt format because of the locking.

So i swapped the ram, took out 2 sticks of 512 and stuck 1 new stick of corsair 512 in there, problem solved, sytem running fine and fresh install of windows

Now he's gone out and bought another stick of the 512 that i placed in there to get his sytem back upto 1gig...but the problems now come back :s

Is the mobo dead ?

Tute · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:12

Sounds like one of the RAM slots is faulty, try one stick in either slot.

If it boots in one but not the other, then you've got a faulty one, not a lot you can do except avoid using it i'm afraid, or change motherboard.

It may also be one of those shuttles that has intermittent problems when running in dual channel, maybe look for a setting in the BIOS to disable it?

Kezmo · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:13

cheers for quick reply, he's had the shuttle 2 years now with no probs, sounds like the 2nd ram slot is borked then :/

cokecan · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:18

like tute said, it could very likely be that it's bein picky about dual channel. maybe an option in the bios to do it

what shuttle is it?

Kezmo · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:34

cokecan72 said:
like tute said, it could very likely be that it's bein picky about dual channel. maybe an option in the bios to do it

what shuttle is it?

Nothing in bios will do it, as said above the sytems been running fine for 2 years.

Tute · 9 Jan 2007 at 00:19

Kezmo said:
Nothing in bios will do it, as said above the sytems been running fine for 2 years.

That's a good point. Looks like he's going to be down to the single RAM slot tbh.