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Grrr!!
22-03-2003, 12:13 PM
As many of you may know; I purchased a SN41G2 shuttlecube the other day.

SPECS:
Shuttle SN41G2
AMD Athlon AIUHB 2100XP
Shuttle ICE Heatpipe
2x512MB Muskin Blue DDR333 CL2
Onboard GF4MX (128MB Shared)


Being enthusiastic ... I cranked my Athlon 2100 straight up to 166MHz ... all stable and good :).

Then up to 185Mhz ... it ran fine ... except for the fact that it somehow corrupted my BIOS. Yep ... it ran stable in windows, but hitting DEL to enter the BIOS would put the system into a blinking cursor on a black screen.

Went to reset the CMOS ... that didn't work.

In the end I flashed the BIOS ... though that was difficult as I could not install a floppy as I'd told the BIOS there was no floppy (although the device listing mentioned that Floppy: Friday (WTF?).

After the BIOS flash I put the system back up to 185 ... same effect.

I can seem to safely get away with 180Mhz (2.34GHz) though I haven't tested it out properly yet, and I am thinking that it might be safer to leave it at 166Mhz. NB: Stock Voltages.

The temps are as follows: (Shuttle ICE Heatpipe with AC3; with case in original condition on the system).

Idle (at 166MHz): 36°C,
Load (at 166MHz): 46°C

The system is almost silent ... it NEVER enters the high speed (er 3K RPM) mode of the fan.
Wibber
22-03-2003, 12:21 PM
luvly
Sydog
22-03-2003, 03:23 PM
Those temps sound a bit low, Paul rhee and I both get higher temps then that witht eh same cpu and water cooling.

Im on 166fsb 2166mhz and my temperature under idle varies between 36deg on a day like today to 41deg on a hot day.

what vcore are you using?
Jetboy
22-03-2003, 03:45 PM
temps are about the same as what I'm getting with mine (fun toy aye Grrrr :D ) but think the temps are taken from a diode under the chip and are not actually reading the onboard diode from the XP chips....was running my XP2000 on a A7V333 mb and was getting low-mid 50, now getting low 40.....but in defence of the ICE Heatpipe it does seem to do a damn good job as the case temp never seems to get up there which (hopefully) means that all the heat from the CPU is getting dragged up and out by the pipes
Gh0s7 L3mUr
22-03-2003, 04:41 PM
Damn sweet job there Grrr!!. :cool:

So when's the modding and pics? ;) :D
Jetboy
22-03-2003, 07:15 PM
if it happens again try holding down the "Insert" key as you boot, is supposed to reset the CMOS (back to 100Mhz), would be interested as currently have no floppy to flash the bios with if I toast mine :(
Testing
22-03-2003, 08:27 PM
Originally posted by Grrr!!


SPECS:
Shuttle SN41G2
AMD Athlon AIUHB 2100XP
Shuttle ICE Heatpipe
2x512MB Muskin Blue DDR333 CL2
Onboard GF4MX (128MB Shared)





how much is this and where did u buy it from?
Grrr!!
22-03-2003, 09:09 PM
Originally posted by Testing
how much is this and where did u buy it from?

Starlyte.

Just that was ~$1450 IIRC. Though my complete system was $2500.
Grrr!!
22-03-2003, 09:15 PM
Originally posted by Jetboy
if it happens again try holding down the "Insert" key as you boot, is supposed to reset the CMOS (back to 100Mhz), would be interested as currently have no floppy to flash the bios with if I toast mine :(

I reset mine to identify the floppy by taking out the Powercord, and CMOS battery overnight. It then searched for the drives, including floppy ones.

Yeah ... I have the impression the temps are a tad low; probably a diode at fault .. but I don't mind. Though the fan grill of the heatpipe is only ever warm and not hot ... so it must be reasonably cool for the CPU.

I have done some stress testing; and found that the system is COMPLETELY STABLE at 166, and at 172, but anything above that does generate random reboots (I suspect that this might be a voltage issue).

Remember this is all at STOCK voltage. (That should answer your question Sydog).