Shuttle SN45G: Made some changes, now won't boot

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Hi, I currently have the above barebones with an Athlon XP-M [email protected], 2x512MB PC3200 DDR RAM, Maxtor DM9 60GB ATA133 HDD and Radeon 9700Pro 128MB card. It was all working fine before I attempted to replace a few components:

- switched the 80mm fan (which was a Silenx I had mounted externally, with grill removed of course) back to a 80-120mm fan adapter+Akasa Amber 120mm fan, which I used before with no problems
- wiped off and reapplied Arctic Silver 5 to my CPU, seeing as I had to remove the heatpipe system anyways to install the 80-120mm fan adapter
- replaced my Maxtor DM9 60GB with a Maxtor DM10 250GB HDD
- replaced both flat IDE cables with rounded ones
- replaced the stock HSF with an Arctic Cooler VGA Silencer Version 2 on the Radeon

When I had this all fitted in, I pressed the power button but nothing comes up on the monitor, although all the fans spin as expected. Resetted the CMOS a few times but has made no difference. Tried reseating EVERYTHING like a gazillion times and again, nothing. Tested each individual component in another PC and they were fine.

The Shuttle was perfectly fine before I started replacing things. I can't exactly put things back to exactly as before now, especially the stock HSF for the Radeon, and anyways, all the components work fine individually. Hope the Shuttle hasn't just gone kaput like that, because it cost me £150 over 2 years ago, and I'm not even sure whether the XP-M 2500+ is working too, and that cost me £70 from OcUK! Anyone have any ideas about what else I could try out? I'm gonna try reseating everything again tomorrow but may have to plan for a new motherboard, CPU, case and PSU :mad: If it was just the Shuttle that went bang and the CPU was perfectly fine, I guess I could just buy a cheap Socket A mobo and case for the time being...
 
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have you disconnected the power lead? with my old SN45G i found tha tif i disconnected the power lead and cleared *** cmos, things seemed to start up. as great as the mobo is, it can be a bit flakey at times :(

if that dont work, maybe try putting everythin back in that was originally in, or even trying with the bare minimum
 
Well, I've already tested the Radeon 9700 Pro, HDD and memory in another PC and they are fine, so putting it back to normal wouldn't make any difference.

Anyways, tested the XP-M 2500+ in the other PC and boots fine, while I tested the XP2500+ desktop from there in the Shuttle and doesn't boot. Therefore, I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard. Just stripped the whole system out, and gonna give the motherboard a thorough clean, and then carefully reattach all the basics to it.

I'll try yours and the many other methods out there with clearing the CMOS. I'm just really baffled about how I made some simple changes and now it won't boot:

- replaced fan, but CPU is working fine, hence not fried due to fan change so can't be that
- put on Arctic Cooler on 9700Pro but card works perfectly fine in other PC
- replaced 60GB with 250GB, but both drives are working fine on other PC also

Looks like I will have to purchase an Abit NF7-S v2 or something. Planned to buy one 2nd-hand off MM for under £25 but then wimped out, and now I so regret that decision, lol.

PS. Also, I've noticed that when the PC is connected to the mains but isn't powered on, the green LED on the mobo isn't on, like it always used to be. I can't remember what the green LED is for, but if it ain't lighting up, then surely the mobo has popped its clogs then? Doubt it's the PSU as all the fans spin and the lights on the front and optical drives work.

Update: LOL, I feel like such an idiot now. I took out the mobo out of the side and gave it a thorough clean, and took out the battery for a few hours. Did the reset jumper once more before I put it all back in. Now it boots fine :o

And there I was looking forward to buying a Socket 939 kit...

Update 2: ARGH!!! Went ahead to attach everything back in, turned on Shuttle and then NOTHING again. So back to basics it was. I did manage to get it to boot up the one time when I had just the RAM, CPU and graphics card in there but when I tried adding one thing at a time, such as the hdd (which again, works fine in my other PC) or the DVD-RW drive (same), it doesn't boot up the next. So I thought maybe that was the problem, and back to CPU/RAM/GPU-only again and now never boots. Also, I've noticed that I only get the green LED when PC is off, if I unplug and plug back in the power cable after I have powered down.
 
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thats wha ti ment by the SN45G mobo bein a tad flakey at times :) lol

i had no end of booting probelsm with mine, but i was in the middle of volt modding and overclocking so i guess that was to be expected lol

what psu have you got running in it?

i know the enhance 200watt psu's do seem to lack the same kinda ooomph as the achme 200watt psu's. if you got a 250watt in then there should be no problem unless the psu is on its way out??
 
I do indeed have the Enhance 200W PSU but this was all working perfectly beforehand so I don't see why it just has to not boot up now. It was only a fan change, lol. The fans spin and lights come on, plus I only have the RAM, CPU and GFX plugged in. Can't be that weak surely? :p

Maybe it's some Aprils Fool Day curse because I have 2 friends who had some malicious stuff on their PC which forced them to format last night LOL

Anyways, a nice Socket 939 mobo, such as the ASrock 939dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) seems VERY tempting now :)
 
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