SS51G Fastest Video Card

Well, with the fan failing on my Nvidia 5600 Ultra, I decided to upgrade my
video card to a Radeon 9700 Pro in my Shuttle SS51G. Well, BF2 started fine
and ran very nicely for 5 minutes and then...no video signal to my monitor.
I had read that power can be an issue with these cards and the 200W PS in
the Shuttle. I tried putting the HD on the same power line with the MB and
then used the other power line to supply the DVDRW and the Radeon card.

The Shuttle website talks about running a 9800Pro with a fully configured
system for 3 days of burn in with no problems. Am I out of luck here? Am I
simply asking for too much juice...do I need to change the power leads...or
do I have to go for a new power supply? The tech support guy for my 5600
Ultra said it too should be drawing too much juice and could lead to early
PS failure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BigSky

 

Try resetting the Power Supply by unplugging it. I would think 200watts is
not enough, but the below site seems to list some components and how much
power they use. There are other sites that will give you exact numbers if
you can find them. The quality of the supply makes a difference, but I
don't know how good the shuttle ones are.

http://forums.thatcomputerguy.us/index.php?showtopic=1096

Shuttle is now selling a 300 watt version, probably because folks wanted to
do what you are doing.

Clark

 

I have a shuttle sn41g2, i put a 9800 pro on it 10 months ago and i began to
have problems when i used two monitors, the problem came starting windows
xp, sometimes worked and some hanged the machine, i bought the new 250 watts
silent x in august, i never had more problems and the pc is running very
stable. i think that the problem is your old and tired power unit. change
it.

 

Well, my son managed to play BF2 for an hour without incident but I don't
think my problems are over yet. I wonder if I could put the DVD and HD on
the power line that goes to the MB and has a free molex connector on it?
Then the other free power line would just handle the 9700Pro.

 

Well,

After having continued problems with "No video signal" and a corrupted
display despite removing the cover of the SS51G and unplugging many of the
components, I finally decided to move the card to a tower PC and different
monitor. After loading the drivers the card worked flawlessly for over an
hour, I thought my problems were over. However, the next day on boot up the
screen was again corrupted (looked like it was magnified 100 times). So,
I'm guessing the card is bad.

Big Sky