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Yeah the SN95 is sweet. I saw one yesterday running an A64 FX 55. Very fast.

I used the driver from the website - the one which it says you can use as the base driver if you have never before installed any drivers for the card. I sent my old Audigy back under RMA and got this one which I am having the problems with. I dont care too much now - I am using onboard audio and wil...

Tried these drivers and they also cause crashing. I am using the onboard sound now.


I HATE creative soundcards.




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Please ignore all above postings by myself. After a lot of hassle from my system I have now diagnosed this to be a driver issue. I was focusing on the hard drive due to the corrupt file system message from SEATOOLS which I have been told by seagate is meaningless under a SATA setup. I have uninstall...

Is anyone here using a Seagate Serial ATA drive and an XPC SN85G4v2???

I phoned Seagate Technical support and they told me that there have been issues with the Silicon Image 3512a RAID 0/1 controller and their SATA drives. I was told that an engineer would phone me back in 4 hours as they were in the USA.

Ran memtest86 last night:

Wall Time : 8 hrs 21 mins
Tests Passed : 48
Tests Failed : 0




Shuttle SATA support is rubbish. I should be enjoying my XPC now, not dealing with this headache.

"Did you try using a parallel ATA drive?"

This may have to be a future test. I first want to contact shuttle to see if there is a known SATA problem.

I did not purchase the SN85G4v2 and a 160GB Seagate Barracuda to end up using a parallel ATA drive!!!

I am running the memcheck tonight. Still pretty sure that the memory is OK though. This issue is worse than a simple memory failure.

The memory test in the SEATOOLS reported that the memory was fine although I am aware that this is not a thorough test. The memory is brand new out of the box. I am pretty sure that this is not a memory issue as the crashes happen only occasionally when the system is using the hard drive heavily. It...

"Writing off the "whole XPC range" just because of this problem is a bit like never again flying on a Boeing simply because Southwest Airlines lost your luggage. " This analogy does not hold water unless Southwest Airlines manufactures the Boeings! Cause I certainly wouldnt fly with them if they did...

I forgot to mention I am also using the latest BIOS version for the FN85 board which I got from Shuttle's website.

In reply to UberGerbil: I tested the memory module using the SEATOOLS memory check feature. I then checked the memory with an old floppy-disk based diagnostic utility my father used to use over 10 years ago when he owned a company building PCs. The RAM passed all checks. My SATA cable came with the ...

My XPC contains completely new components ordered 4 days ago from microdirect.co.uk I am using the following shuttle approved memory: http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=3182&GroupID=56 My specs are as follows: Athlon 64 3200+ 512mb Corsair 160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA NEC 25...

I am using a Seagate Barracuda SATA 160GB drive. I am experiencing random crashing while using Windows particularly during hard-drive intensive tasks such as installing files to disk from a CD. I installed the drive as per the user manual instructions and installed the Silicon SATA RAID driver from ...