Author Topic: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!  (Read 3020 times)

[TiG]Lucutus

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Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« on: August 11, 2007, 05:33:01 PM »
omfg.  the shuttle died today, left the room for a minute after updating ETQW beta and playing it for a bit, came back to a PC whic was turned off.

Tried to power it up a few times, get haflway though BIOS bits, then powers off again.  once it even got to Windows XP progress bar, showed some error dialog then died again.

After that, all I get is no POST, no error code beeps, no video.  Even after removing *everything* apart from the CPU, it's the same.

Currently, it powers on, the fans spin and thats it, just sits there doing nothing, still no POST or error codes.

Anyway, I know a few ppl here have this type of shuttle, *looking over at molc*,  wondering if any of you have seen or heard of this before, is there anything I can do with it to recover?

Offline for gaming till I get it back or build a new one, will be around IRC and forums for the lol.

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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2007, 06:31:43 PM »
Spare machine here you can borrow until you get up and running or build again.  :salute:

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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 08:23:10 PM »
Actually Danny is the man that had one. Alas his plonked its feet in the air also and died on him over time.

One thing, if you took everything out except the CPU, it can't post. New systems need a gfx card  and ram in there to work afaik.

Also, try the usual popping out the ram and reseating it, followed by booting from a linux boot disk like system rescue cd (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). IF you can get this far, then at least the mobo and CPU is fine. and you still have a working system. If not, you're boned pretty much.

After that, pop a drive in and see can you install windows and go from there.

I'm sure this is recapping stuff you've already done but it's my only idea tbh. Oh, and the sata controllers on those mobo's are kinda dodge so try popping in an ide drive for testing...

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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2007, 08:31:43 PM »
Aye, apparently, posting/error beep codes don't work due to the lack of a PC speaker, nice, eh?

I'm writing this from it now, put it back together with one hard drive, it'll start and boot to windows once every 4-6 times I try it, removing the power completely between tries.  Sometimes it dies after I press the power button, sometimes it'll boot for 5 seconds and then die, others it'll be loading windows and die. 

GFX card makes those worrying electrical sounds after it's shut itself down and I try to boot it again.

If I try to do anything taxing with it, like, run a game, it'll die.

Crazy behavior altogether




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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2007, 09:39:34 PM »
PSU given up the go maybe?

Could not be getting enough power to everything to run it all.

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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2007, 09:56:43 AM »
Ohhh gfx makes strange sounds... maybe try a different card and see if it stabilises. Could be it just finally got too hot and burned out...

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Re: Dead Shuttle XPC SN25P!
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007, 06:13:42 PM »
Thanks to fr0d0 and his old shuttle, mine is back!  \o/

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