Originally posted by: Samus
I found out the problem with my clients sensitive and randomly rebooting SN25P.
Get this: THE CHROME FEET. They pickup overly sensitive vibration and shock, and add an angle. ALL of these things combined set off the already sensitive hard disk shock sensor built into the system to prevent damage to the drives.
If you use the feet, REMOVE THEM SUCKA'S!
Geez, we have to resort to this now? Talk about getting ridiculous. I thought the chrome feet is there to allow airflow from under the case? Also, what HD shock sensor are you talking about? Is this an option in the SN25P's BIOS setting? or is this your HD's own software? What's your HD by the way? If my BSOD problem doesn't go away by using NVIDIA's firewall, I'll try removing the chrome feet.
UPDATE:
Well, I switched over to the NVIDIA's firewall shortly after I updated my previous post about ZA. And guess what? It locked up again! So, I removed the chrome feet and rebooted. Now, I can't load any website with the NVIDIA's firewall enabled. I tried turning it down from medium to low. But no it was no use. I tried purging the various tables, still nothing. This piece of crap system is pissing me off. I need to find another firewall software to use besides ZA and NVIDIA's. BTW, whoever decided to use the web browser to configure the firewall should be beaten to a pulp. Not only is it annoying as heck when the navigation tree keeps closing up on you when you hit apply, it takes forever for the changes to take affect after you hit the apply button. Why in the world not put the settings inside the tray app like ZA? Urgh!!! These guys get paid to write this piece c r a p of software? I can't even get into my linksys router setup screen (which also uses the web browser to customize its setting; but it's way better designed than NVIDIA's crapfest-of-a-firewall).
UPDATE #2:
Well, after rebooting, the NVIDIA's firewall software somehow got corrupted. So, I follow the instruction to re-install it. Then windows firewall kicked in automatically (I had it disabled -- anyone know how to permanently remove it?). Can you say frustrating and annoying??? Argh!
Anyway, the instruction that I followed caused the NVIDIA's firewall software to uninstall completely (instead of only getting a notice of the firewall part of the network suite being uninstalled). Just as well, I supposed. So, I've hit rock bottom with this crap.
I enabled the windows firewall (oh, no! talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel). Then found out it only blocks incoming requests and not outgoing requests!!! So, malicious programs can phone home and spread your info to the whole world.
If I worked at a fast food restaurant that pays $5 an hour, I would have made $60 with the time and effort spent on trying to get online without BSOD or freezing with the SN25P.
Of course, the SN25P runs like a champ if you never go online. Hmmm...one wonders if the tech-heads at NVIDIA/shuttle even tested the online part of the SN25P? So, to recap, ZA is not compatible with the SN25P, the NVIDIA's firewall sucks arse (annoying browser-based GUI; also assigned a very high IP for connection xxx.xxx.x.63 instead of xxx.xxx.x.4), and the windows firewall just plain suck (does not block phone-home/outbound connections to the internet) ... make that $65 now.
UPDATE #3:
Wahoo! I've finally found help with the problem. This post about someone encountering a blue screen of death with zone alarm on ZA's forum solved my issue (but I'll report back in a couple of days just to be sure):
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/boar...2&highlight=blue+screen+of+death#M9422
UPDATE #4:
It just BSOD on me again. Freakin SOB! I hate shuttle! I hate SN2P! Argh, I'm going to try Kerio's firewall or Norton and see either would help.
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