Help, SN25P keeps freezing

[Fenrir64]

Hello,

I just recently assembled my new system, described in the following

SN25P
AMD Athlon 3200+
Kingston 1GB PC 3200
2 Segate 120GB SATA 7200RPM (RAID 0)
eVGA 6800GT 256MB
Sony DWU26A 16x

From time to time my shuttle decides to freeze up while running games. I thought it might be a heat issue so I carefully tracked the temperature, but I have no idea what the regular range of temperatures are. For my system, with full load, the GPU temp gets up to 87 deg C and the core temp is 62 deg C. When it's idle the temps are around 70 deg C and 48 deg C for the GPU and core respectively. I'm not entirely certain if it is a temperature problem or a RAID problem, but I have installed the lastest drivers and BIOS. What makes me think the RAID might be involved is that when I restart, immediately after the freeze, the shuttle has difficulty detecting the RAID. If there is anyone who can help me your assistance would be greatly appreciated.



-Fen

 

[Aldoria]

Hiya Fen,

Sorry to hear that you are having problems. I have written a guide regarding the SN25P and I suggest you to look through it to see maybe something matches. I believe it's your SATA cables, thought I'm not sure if you are using the bundled ones that comes with Shuttle, here ya go and hope it can help you.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=930760

Ald

 

[Fenrir64]

Thx, I'll try that. But before I do is there a particular brand of SATA cables that I should be aware of?

-Fen

 

[Aldoria]

I heard some say these were pretty good (a little long), though any other SATA cable should be better than the thin Shuttle bundled ones.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812104557

Ald

 

[suklee]

I found this to be a helpful post. It also talks about replacing your SATA cables, and mentions driver installations, etc.

 

[eastvillager]

Your temps are way high, seems like.

I've got a sn25p with even hotter components and much lower temps.

 

[Fenrir64]

Then is there anything I can do about the excess heat?

-Fen

 

[minus1972]

make sure your fan settings are correct in the bios and for that matter, make sure they're working period.

EDIT: read the posted guide...seems like a BIOS update might help in the long run.

 

[latresillustre]

A BIOS update helped for my 3000+ Venice's temp.

Use the Windows software that they include to BIOS flash, people are having a better time with it opposed to a floppy.

 

[eastvillager]

You might want to reseat the the cpu. If you don't get a good interface between the heatsink, cpu, heatsink compound, it'll jack your temps up significantly.

Additionally, if you just assembled the rig, it takes awhile for some types of heatsink compount to 'cure'.

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: latresillustre
A BIOS update helped for my 3000+ Venice's temp.

Use the Windows software that they include to BIOS flash, people are having a better time with it opposed to a floppy.

I'd recommend AGAINST using Winflash. I just can't trust flashing a BIOS from within Windows.

The safest IMO is to boot from a CD image and flash from there. Download the SN25P's image from XPCBIOS, burn to a CD-R(W) and that's it. Upon booting it gives you two BIOS choices to flash to: "K" and "O". BIOS revision history

edit - direct link to SN25P iso

 

[latresillustre]

yeah.
listen to Kai920, not me. i think i'm just getting mixed messages.
(just saw some posts that denounced WinFlash.)