SN41G2 and Barton 2500 issue

[mrEvil]

Needless to say, this ruined my New Years mood. Figured while I was going to put in a 9600 AIW to use as a PVR in my 2nd machine, I'd swap the 2500 out of that box and put it in my SN41G2. Should be easy, right?

Well, when I stick the 2500 into the Shuttle, when it attempts to boot, all I get is a quick power up and then the CPU overheat light comes on. Put the 2000+ back in and no problems. Same RAM, CPU, etc....

Specs:

2 x 512MB Crucial PC2700
ATI 9700 Pro
SB Audigy
WD 100MB HD
LG DVD Drive

I took EVERYTHING out, tried all combos that I could think of, and still get the same thing if the 2500 is in the Shuttle. 2500 runs fine in my Gigabye 7N400 Pro.

Of course, I could not get the d@mn Shuttle web site to ever launch their support site. Imagine that...down at the time I need it.

I'll stop the ranting now and go drink some happy sauce...since I only have an hour until 2004 is thrust upon me...what a waste of 2.5 hours....

HNY and thanks for any suggestions you can provide....

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Starting with the simple, did you clear the CMOS?

 

[mrEvil]

All the simple things that I could think of were done, including clearing the CMOS - before every attempt.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Well, it sounds like you may have a defective board, the only other thing I'd suggest is to update to the latest bios iof you haven't already. I have the SN45G so I don't know if your board uses a FSB select jumper or not and beyond that I can't think of any reason beyond a faulty board to account for it's inability to run 166mhz FSb. Sorry I can't be of more help, so here's a bump for your problem ^

 

[Mischa]

I just built two SN41G2's and put Barton 2500's in them both. Both booted first time, with no worries.

I immediately flashed the bios to the latest version, and had no trouble there, either. My set-ups looked like this:

+ SN41G2
+ 2x512 PC3200 Mushkin Level II Dual Pack
+ WD 200 GB (7200/8 mbc) HD
+ Lite-on DVD Burner

The second was the same, but with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and a 120 gb Maxtor drive. I used onboard sound rather than an SB card--just as good and saved a precious slot.

About hte only real difference between us is the memory and the sound card. Can you try different DDR memory? That might work.

 

[Chesebert]

Did you put on the SHAM?

if you did, please take that off. those things are not needed anymore.

 

[mrEvil]

Chesebert - Thanks! Sure enough, that was causing the issue with the 2500. Funny that it did not cause a problem with the 2000.

Thanks again!

 

[arsbanned]

Huh. I used the shim when building one of those and it works fine. CPU is running around 39 c. So the consensus now is no shim? I'll go without next time I build one.

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
Huh. I used the shim when building one of those and it works fine. CPU is running around 39 c. So the consensus now is no shim? I'll go without next time I build one.

I guess it depends on the CPU core. They might not be the same thickness, so the shim won't line up the core with the heatsink. I'm using a pal 2000+ with the shim.