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I have had a Shuttle Zen for nearly 12 months. It has a 3.0 GHz
Prescott and 1 GB of TwinMos PC3200 RAM, and it has been working fine,
except for some small problems:
1. Left plugged in all the time, it regularly finds the wrong FSB after
a cold boot, ie 166 x 15 instead of 200 x 15. I can get around this by
pressing reset while still in the boot screen, once I see the incorrect
fsb reported. It never happens if I leave the AC power switched off at
the wall when not using the computer, or if I disconnnect the DC
connector from the system unit. (The Zen has a separate fanless "power
brick"). The last BIOS update (the Z bios) was intended to address this
issue, but was not universally successful.
2. There is a faint crackle through my powered speakers which seems to
correspond to disk and/or bus activity.
I can live with these problems quite easily. I like the system,
especially its low noise levels. However, over on the Sudhian forums,
the Zen has a terrible reputation. Some people allege that these
machines are prone to burn up their cpus through fan or fan header
failure. Others say they have had no problems. I have not found any
mention of endemic Zen fan failures anywhere else. (Eg here).
Do any present or former Zen / ST62k users have any comments?
I have had a Shuttle Zen for nearly 12 months. It has a 3.0 GHz
Prescott and 1 GB of TwinMos PC3200 RAM, and it has been working fine,
except for some small problems:
1. Left plugged in all the time, it regularly finds the wrong FSB after
a cold boot, ie 166 x 15 instead of 200 x 15. I can get around this by
pressing reset while still in the boot screen, once I see the incorrect
fsb reported. It never happens if I leave the AC power switched off at
the wall when not using the computer, or if I disconnnect the DC
connector from the system unit. (The Zen has a separate fanless "power
brick"). The last BIOS update (the Z bios) was intended to address this
issue, but was not universally successful.
2. There is a faint crackle through my powered speakers which seems to
correspond to disk and/or bus activity.
I can live with these problems quite easily. I like the system,
especially its low noise levels. However, over on the Sudhian forums,
the Zen has a terrible reputation. Some people allege that these
machines are prone to burn up their cpus through fan or fan header
failure. Others say they have had no problems. I have not found any
mention of endemic Zen fan failures anywhere else. (Eg here).
Do any present or former Zen / ST62k users have any comments?