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So I have had this unit for 2.5 years with very little problems running the following components.
Pentium D 940
2 x 1 GB OCZ Gold PC2-6400 @ 666Mhz 4-4-4-12
Asus 7600GT Video
Various DVD burners from LG and Lite-On (kept getting bad ones >.<)
Nvidia DualTV Tuner (Awesome Card! too expensive though)
320 GB 7200.10 then upgraded to 500 GB 7200.11 a few months ago.
MCE 2005
Loved this rig it was awesome. However I was having problems with powersurges even though I had a good APC powerbar hooked up and decided to get a APC 1100VA UPS for my media center. Worked great through most of the power surges but there were a couple that still casued the unit to hang or restart.
Now last night the unit stopped posting. I tried all the hard ware in my main rig (Asus Maximus Formula) and everything posts fine and boots vista. I put a PSU tester on the shuttle psu and it tests ok with voltages of 12.3, 3.1 and 5.0. Closer inspection of the mobo shows one bulging cap near the vreg area next to the chokes. I then opened up the PSU and found no bad caps in there.
So I am thinking this mobo needs to be replaced. I have tried clearing cmos with teh button and I left the battery out over night. still nothing. The blue power light on the front turns on but the VFD does not and I get nothing. No dispaly, no HD activity. Nothing.
Pentium D 940
2 x 1 GB OCZ Gold PC2-6400 @ 666Mhz 4-4-4-12
Asus 7600GT Video
Various DVD burners from LG and Lite-On (kept getting bad ones >.<)
Nvidia DualTV Tuner (Awesome Card! too expensive though)
320 GB 7200.10 then upgraded to 500 GB 7200.11 a few months ago.
MCE 2005
Loved this rig it was awesome. However I was having problems with powersurges even though I had a good APC powerbar hooked up and decided to get a APC 1100VA UPS for my media center. Worked great through most of the power surges but there were a couple that still casued the unit to hang or restart.
Now last night the unit stopped posting. I tried all the hard ware in my main rig (Asus Maximus Formula) and everything posts fine and boots vista. I put a PSU tester on the shuttle psu and it tests ok with voltages of 12.3, 3.1 and 5.0. Closer inspection of the mobo shows one bulging cap near the vreg area next to the chokes. I then opened up the PSU and found no bad caps in there.
So I am thinking this mobo needs to be replaced. I have tried clearing cmos with teh button and I left the battery out over night. still nothing. The blue power light on the front turns on but the VFD does not and I get nothing. No dispaly, no HD activity. Nothing.
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