whats wrong with my sn25p?

[Amleto]

It wont work Problems started in the heat from last week.

The first time it crashed and wouldn't boot, I unplugged the hdd, and it went to bios no probs. After the hdd had been in the fridge for a bit, plug it in, fire it up... working again \o/

A few mins later: crashed again Unplug the hdd, but I cant get to bios.

So the shuttle has been idle since today as the relatively arctic temperature of 27C has been reached. All bits together, booting up...freeze Now its doing the same as last time - even with no hdd plugged in (no cd or card readers either) absolutely nothing happens on the monitors. The fans on my 7800gt are spinning up though.

I have noticed the psu is now making a buzzing noise even when not turned on.


Opinions on what is wrong?


I don't have another pci-e to test the 7800gt. I have checked the hdd, it seems fine as a slave drive on this comp. Soooo, psu/graphics - where's you're money at?

Kinda hoping its the psu because the shuttle should still be in warranty. The graphics I bought second hand...

memory is 2x1gb geil value, the hdd is barracuda 7200.9, gfx is bfg7800gt oc.

edit: just reading up, looks as though I might not have warranty :/ bought it from the bay. was told it had manu warranty. It was sealed when it arrived so I left good feedback. can't find anything on shuttle.com that sounds good for me : /

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Have you cleared the CMOS and reset the BIOS to defaults?

It might be worth noting that original SN25P had bad SATA cables so a quick swap out would be the first port of call. Second I would try checking it with a single stick of RAM and if possible test as much equipment as you can on a friends machine.

Sooner or later you will find the culprit. Good luck

 

[Its_Me]

Open it up and re-seat everything.
WHilst your doing this, reset Cmos and remove battery.

rebuild and give it a go.
Used to help mine when it got glitchy, that was till i blew it up

 

[Amleto]

yea, I have previously cleared CMOS, and reset to defaults, but now it wont post/do anything. I cant get back into bios anyway.

I'm not pulling the cpu out again, because I only just had it out for AS5 application. nothing else is plugged in apart from the gfx, which has been in-and-out like a hokey cokey maniac on speed, and the memory.

I could give the memory thing a try, but I would put money on it not being the memory.

 

[Amleto]

Well, that was a useful exercise - I tried both sticks in the blue slot on their own - both times it worked \o/ Tried both in at the same time, different ways around - Tried one stick in the black slot - didnt bother trying the other. It seems quite obvious whats wrong. Now to worry about if I can get an RMA