Comments on: Shuttle update

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:47:46 +0000

So you gave up on XP64?

XP may be my last MS product. I’m soooooo over troubleshooting and tweaking. It used to be fun, but after 15 years of Microsoft “fun” – I’m about over it.

I was thinking of getting one of these (maybe 2) now that NewEgg is offering them with the 7950 (barebones)for $500.

I’ve read lots of forums where the Linux/BSD folks love these things, smooth installs, few problems. My last experience with Linux (RedHat) left me with a lot of mental issues, post offices shot up, etc…

As to some of your other troubles – I’ve had similar issues.

Resetting the bios was the problem (in my case) – any detected USB device (after reset) became a potential “floppy” (bootable device) since I hadn’t specified things in bios again, like I did after purchase.

I just turned off “boot from other devices”, switched boot sequence, and was back in “reinstall” business.

I also just noted that Shuttle posted it’s Vista Premium capable PC’s – and only their latest models are listed there (DDR2 based boxes).

I suspect a lot of folks are going to be in for a shock when they think that the ‘Big Box Store’ that sold them their X64 capable PC way back when – you know, for ‘confidence in future-proofing’, is not going to happen… smoothly, lol…

Every OS forum I’ve visited tho, has something going on, rendering item x problematic with item y… The nature of the beast, I ‘spoze.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:10:03 +0000

Hi; I have an Nforce 3 w/fn85 mb, cannot find nvidia drivers that work audio. I use a wave editor to tranfer lp’s to wave files & clean them up but like you I am stymied by 64 bit that doesn’t work w/nothing and lack of driver support

By: John

John — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:25:43 +0000

HSC?

Are you kidding? You;ll probably be buying the broken fans that she “parted-out” from her original system.

Exactly where did you think they get all that junk at HSC so cheap?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:06:28 +0000

Those noisy fans on the power supply, etc. can be replaced pretty easily if you can find a quieter one with similar air flow. Halted Specialties [HSC] has oodles of fans of different types. It could be surprisingly cheap and easy to replace a noisy one, though you’d have to identify the existing fan first. HSC is awesome!

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:02:01 +0000

My experience says; if you don’t genuinely need really large memory footprints, terrabyte partitions, or support for really really big numbers, don’t use 64-bit. The processor won’t clock any faster on anything that uses only 32-bit facilities.

If you haven’t already, make sure all the firmware is updated on everything, and the various bios/whatever menus are tweaked just enough to enable/disable anything in an unhelpful default state.