I've always liked my SN95G5 but it has always had a cold boot problem (have to pull the power out to make it start up after a shutdown). I discovered this may be a problem with the Athlon64 3500+ processor being incompatible with the motherboard (which appears to be FN95 v2.0 BOM 21). It's not a power draw issue (I know because I even tried a big external PSU). I have swapped the graphics card fairly recently - the AGP slot and small PSU rather restrict your options but for what it's...
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What's your Shuttle set-up, and why'd you go for it? Mine is: SG45H7 2.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 Wolfdale (Stock @ 1.1v) 4096MB (2048MBx2) PNY XLR8 DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 (Stock @ 1.8v) 1GB PNY NVIDIA GTS 250 (Stock) 640GB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200RPM Lite-ON IHOS104-BR BD Drive Windows 7 64-bit (eying Snow Leopard for a dual-boot) I needed something highly transportable for moving between my dorm and my house with plenty of power that my Asus 1000HE simply couldn't offer. The...
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Man I loved this computer. I had saved up a thousand bucks and bought up the parts. I stuck a Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 2 GB of RAM, Geforce 4200, and a DVD/CD burner combo in mine. In the BIOS you could change the clock speeds so I think I got the Pentium 4 up to 2.6 GHz before things got unstable. The best part about Shuttle computers is how simple they are to put together. Even today when a friend recommends what's an easy way to build a PC I tell them to look at Shuttle machines. I remember that...
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I originally bought this from newegg as a teaching aid. (teaching kids how to install operating systems) Since my class has been canceled, I'm thinking of turning this thing into a NAS. Any suggestions?
