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nVidia or Shuttle SN25P drivers?

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hamoid

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Hi,

Anybody has experience downloading drivers for SN25P? I see nVidia has newer versions, but somewhere I read Shuttle had special drivers for their computers, so I don't know exactly where to download from.

I've been using my SN25P for three weeks now and I'm confused about some issues.

1. My SATA Seagate hard drive, makes some strange noises. Those noises happen even before booting windows, so I know any drivers will not help. I read it can happen because new Seagate drives keep moving the head on idle, so they wear out evenly or something like that.

2. I don't understand why decoding a file with razorlame (mp3 160 kbps) takes 26 seconds on my new AMD X2 4200, and 10 seconds in my Centrino 1.4 ghz laptop.

3. My 2 year old 120 GB hard drive, which I put inside a USB2 box, seems to be over two times faster and many times more quiet than the SATA 300 GB drive inside my pc (at least when searching for a file). Is FAT32 much faster than NTFS? is that the reason for the speed difference? Also it's possible that an external drive is quieter than a drive inside the pc, because the bigger box resonates and makes it more loud.

Those little things make me not so happy about the switch. The laptop also was totally silent. Of course the X2 can proccess my RAW photos faster. But maybe I should just get a core duo laptop...

Anyone with similar hardware there could help me check if I'm getting less performance than I should? (maybe with a benchmark software, compressing a similar file or using some photoshop filter).

Thanks
 
When you put your SN25P together did you follow these instructions?

http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=87953&enterthread=y

When I originally put my SN25P together I loaded the drivers that came with it on the CD, very disappointing results. I then followed the instructions in the above link and started over again, loading xp and the drivers it links to and now have a much better system!!

I do sometimes hear funny noises from my hard drive, I think it might be due to how they are fixed. Nothing is actually bolted together it well - just 'clicks' together. So I think sometimes the drives rattle!

Have you tried using 'HD Tach' to get actuall 'mega-bytes per second' for your drives.
But if you loaded all of the nForce drivers it might be due to that. Read through the instructions in the above link and it might pay you to reload your system from scratch.

Phil
 
Hey, thanks for the link. I didn't follow any structions, I just used the CDs that came with it.
I will study it and maybe reinstall.

I found out something worse now: my SN25P was freezing two times. Maybe because I was copying 40 GB to a USB2 Mp3 player. I will check the BIOS version. When these things happen it makes me wonder how we are just used as testers of high tech devices...
 
I would not wait to reinstall it sounds as if you are having issues which are all related to the nVidia nForce drivers. :mad:
Follow those instructions re-install windows and then install the latest drivers, including the AMD driver! :)
Phil
 
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