First post, by schnoots148
Hello to all,
I have picked up 2 shuttle xpc's - an ss58g and a ss56g. They are both showing signs of instability such as boot looping when trying to enter the bios, sometimes not recognising usb keyboards and mouses, no signal until power cycling a few times and always booting into safe mode (Windows 98). The ss58g has a few visibly bad caps but the ss56g has absolutely no bad caps on it (looks wise). Could the caps on the ss56g be bad even though they look fine? These machines are pentium 4 based, and seem to be right from the capacitor plague era.
I've tried swapping out power supplies, ram, booting with a variation of no dvd, hdd and floppy drive, different keyboards and alternating between dedicated and onboard graphics. I am unable to flash a new bios on the ss56g because my board revision is strange (V.21 rather than v2 or v3) and the award bios dos program keeps spewing out errors that theres no match.
I would appreciate some insight into this issue I'm having.
Cheers