SN45G V2 major headaches :(

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Im having some problems with my shuttle:

It shuts down if the cpu is set at its correct setting and this red light shines on the board, its so powerfull i can see it thru the case vents

the usb2 ports keep shutting down, its random

so is this thing on its way out? if it is then im a bit peeved but it has lasted me 4years of constant 24/7 abuse

EDIT: forgot the specs

2800 Barton
audigy 1
radeon 9600 aiw
200watt psu (forgot which model - havent opened this shuttle for years)
 
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the red light on the board means the cpu is overheating (think its an 80degree cut off if memory serves). may be worth cleanin off the thermal paste and puttin a new layer on, makin sure the ICE is flat on the cpu. this could also be related to the USB's shutting down, i think their controlled by the southbridge on this (not 100% though). i know if that gets hot then things start goin a bit iffy to say the least.

So, reseat cpu with new thermal paste, clean out fan if its dusty and give the board a quick clean over (cleanin the northbridge and southbridge heatsinks) and i think that should help, or at the very least its a starting point to track down the problem
 
Thanx m8, some good tips there. I shall get this sorted out tonight.
Im thinking about adding an 120mm fan on the back using a shroud adaptor, but leaving the ice fan still connected, do you think that would help or should I remove the ice fan completely?

:)

EDIT: lol im mad, I found an oldish post I had already made about this problem, I really should check what im doing
 
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lol yeah i thought this was a fimiliar post :D

and yeah having the ICE fan still connected with a 120mm fan on the back aswell will work great. theres one (or something similar) in the spec gallery thread at the top of the page to give you an idea.

i tried this when i had a 45G and it did drop temps. to get even more of an effect people cut out the honeycomb mesh on the back of the ICE out so it allowed more airflow.

when you get it up and running again, try a few different combinations of fans and compare your results, having a push-pull config is one of the fav's though, either 80mm on the inside pushing out and an 80mm on the outside sucking out or one 80 and one 120
 
Arghhh apart from choking to death from the dust (and i mean loads of dust)
I have found something nasty :(
The psu is an Achme 200watt and one of the capacitors inside just under the rear vents looks slightly domed, ive seen this before and it spells trouble.
I have cleaned the ice unit out and im embarrased to say it was minging, so bad infact it made me choke and i had to wash my mouth out after blowing the dust away lol. Im hoping this will work as a temp fix until I can buy a silent-x psu (if you can still buy them?)
 
yeah im sure you can, at the least you could pick one up off egay

sounds like the dust may have been some of the problem here then, before you go out and buy a new psu, get a windows program to monitor the voltages and just keep an eye on them. if all the rails are steady then it'll be ok but if they drop then def new psu time
 
I decided to fit an 120mm fan with one of them shroud adaptors and its done wonders, I have shaved at least 10c off the cpu temps and it seems steady as a rock so far :D
The fan I used isnt as good as I wouldve hoped tho, its an aercool turbine (has more blades than a normal fan) but could shift a bit more air imho

So im going to hunt for a better one, just dont know which make to get
 
delta 120x120x38 190cfm :D

one of my previous projects.........had my 3400+ clawhammer at 20 degrees almost constantly, but damn was it loud :)
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yeah, it was sweet, had to move back to a stock 200watt achme psu to fit everything in. ended up moving the PSU towards the front of the case more with the power wire trailing through the hole in the back so i could fit the fan, pci and graphics card in and make another meccano bracket for it :)

the silent-x psu's really are quite expensive, especailly the new 300watt ones. think your best bet would be to pick up a 250watt one off egay. i've bought a few shuttle psu's from there and they've all been fine :)
 
Arghh im cursed :( The way things are going things dont look good at all.
Im having all sorts of goofy problems including the video card blacking out, the aiw rage theatre drivers refuse to work and im getting weird stalling problems with the lan and browsing pages.

Oh and im getting this squealing noise aswell, its more apparrant when the machine is working hard

Also checked the voltage lines with aida32 and the 12v is down to 11.74v and it changes a lot, are these symptons of a bad psu?
 
the 12v rail is the main cause for instability issues, but anythin down to about 11.3v should be ok. anything lower and i'd start to worry. so yours should be fine

as for graphics card driver. download the latest display driver and WDM driver, uninstall your current driver and WDM driver. restart into safe mode and run driver cleaner. get it to "clean" anything for ati display driver and ati WDM driver, restart back into windows normally and install the latest ones. from the sounds of it, it may just be a driver conflict (usually caused by a previous versions driver being left behind, or at least parts of it thats messin about with the new driver)

the squeeling noise is a strange one. i've had it a couple of times before, a fair few other people get it too. not totally sure what it is, why its there and what fixes it. from experience mine just develope don its own for no reason. and it seemed to be only when i scrolled up and down a web page. it also sounded like it was comming from either the graphics card or powersupply. think i took my shuttle appart and put it back together and the squeeling had gone lol so dunno what to suggest for that? maybe try using a diff power connector on your g-card if you can?

whats this wierd stalling problem with lan and web pages? do you mean its almost like it freezes for a second or so then carries on as normal?
 
Just been looking about and I have found out its possible to repair these achme psu's easy (well it is easy with the right parts by the looks of it)

Im defo having issues with this thing, every 1 in 10 reboots will make the gfx card work correctly, the gfx hasnt got a power header on it and its passive, which was the main reason I chose it

The pauses are lan related (I think?) the machine doesnt freeze it just gives up and wont do whats its told, my mates pc did this when the board started to fail and it got worse as time went on

Im tempted to leave a normal sized psu hanging out the back and see if that works as a temp fix, then I will source some replacement capacitors and see how it goes
 
sounds like a plan, at least that way we can either pinpoint the problem or eliminate the psu as the problem, just incase it is the psu thats the main cause for this
 
It has to be m8, this shuttle has performed flawlessly on the same install with the same drivers, bios etc for nearly 4years now, Ive not changed anything and then recently it decides to go flakey. I may have been my lazyness by not cleaning it out enougth tho and that helped it finally go
 
The plot thickens, I have turned over my aria dual-core setup to the htpc task for now, I put the radeon 9600aiw into this system and it works fine apart from the flaming noise.

I then put an older 9200aiw into the shuttle and it works perfectly, im still getting the problem of the time being forgotton tho, I cant fathom that one out?
 
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