Shuttle SS56G reliability?

[GuyScharf]

I am working on a Shuttle SS56G with FX43G mainboard and Athlon 64 2700 processor. The computer is only two years and 4 months old and was used in a home office environment.

There are loads of hardware problems: CMOS battery failed, Samsung floppy disk completely failed, LG DVDROM/CD-RW unreliable read and won't burn, two bad spots on Seagate 7200.7 drive.

This seems to me like a huge number of hardware problems for a computer of this age. I've never seen a CMOS backup battery fail so soon. Do Shuttle computers tend to generate hardware problems?

Bottom line: is the machine worth repairing or is it going to be a sinkhole?

Thanks!

Guy

 

[RamIt]

The only component that originally that came with that shuttle is the cmos battery.

I have a sb61g2 that has had the power supply go bad after 3 years of somewhat heavy overclocking.
2 drives
DVD-RW
P4 2.4@3.4
2 sticks of ram
ATI 9800xt

It has been in use under load as a game server and PVR box for the last 2 years.
That being said, i think they (shuttle) have an average amount of problems.

 

[GuyScharf]

I've been trying to imagine why this machine might have seen so many more failures than I've seen in a typical tower desktop. Is component cooling in the Shuttle adequate? I did look at the SMART data for the drive and did not see any alarming temperature indicators, so that would argue against a cooling problem.