Shuttle ST20G5 Windows 7 SATA driver working
Hi,
just to let all Shuttle ST20G5 users out there that you can install Windows 7. It has taken me a few weeks to find a working driver. I even tried extracting one from Vista 64 which worked on one of my ST20G5s but not on the other!
As I haven't made a minimum 5 posts before I can insert a link in a thread then reconstruct this: paulmcgrath dot net
You'll find the driver in the downloads.
It contains a Vista 32 and 64 driver which I have working in Windows 7 64bit (I am online on it now).
With a X2 4200, 1.5GB ram and a NVidia Geforce 9400 GT my performance rating is a respectible 4.5 out of 7.9. My ram let me down! It is just DDR 333.
Good luck
Paul
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:surprised:There are other ST20G5 users out there?!? I thought I was the only one left...
Thanks for your work Paul, I'll be testing a Windows 7 install on my trusty old silver box at the weekend. Are there any other driver/incompatability issues I should be aware of?
BTW I tried to send you a message on your website but it kept saying "There was a problem sending your message."
Cheers,
Sam
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Right, got windows 7 ultimate installed on the ST20g5.
The SATA driver worked a treat, thanks again.
However the sound isn't quite right. After installing the latest driver from Realtek the sound is choppy and full of artifacts. Any ideas?
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Also, the audio you can hear sounds terrible! Really compressed and tinny... It's not my headphones.
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I did have a problem with one of the realtek 64bit sound drivers but I cannot remember the version, try the previous release and it might be okay.
Paul
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The 'windows update' driver doesn't work at all. The latest Vista/Win7 R2.36 driver on the rather dubious Realtek website does work but the sound is clipped and choppy.
It seems to be a very common problem across various sound cards and for me was cured by changing the power management option to 'performance'.
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I am having the typical problem that it locks up during the install process and reboots to just start it all over again.
I think maybe it might be my SATA DVD drive causing the issue since others are successful, is anyone else using a SATA DVD to install as well as SATA HD?
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this could be fun then.
i have found this driver on the nvidia website
http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html
apparently extracting that gives you the raid driver to install on a s-ata hard disk
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MrP
this could be fun then.
i have found this driver on the nvidia website
(URL removed, apparently I don't have enough posts)
apparently extracting that gives you the raid driver to install on a s-ata hard disk
Unfortunately that's one of the drivers I have tried. I gave up a while back bought an Asus laptop. I do still have the sff though just sitting idle since Oct. Might be because my DVD writer is sata. Maybe one if these days if I have an opportunity ill try again using a USB DVD writer to install. I had removed every other possible piece of hardware and others appear to have had success with this sff case.
Thanks for giving it a go. :)
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Originally Posted by
MrP
this could be fun then.
i have found this driver on the nvidia website
'still wont let me post urls'
apparently extracting that gives you the raid driver to install on a s-ata hard disk
I started with this driver and it didn't work. It has a Vista 32/64 driver but not Windows 7. If you look in the inf file you'll find that it might be 6.3.0.0 (can't remember exact revision number). The one that I found hunting the net was 2 versions later. There seem to be different motherboard versions of the ST20G5, we have loads of different ones in work, and I couldnt get the Nvidia ULi driver to work on every one. The driver on my site works on all the ones I have tried so far in work.
The Realtek sound issue was resolved for me by going for an earlier version of the 64 bit driver. I have since tried the latest 64bit driver and that worked as well.
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Anyone know how big of a hard drive the bios will detect?
I tried plugging in a 1.5 TB samsung drive and the latest bios doesn't detect it.
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I have fitted a 1TB in a ST20G5. I dont know if there is an upper size limit.
It may not be the BIOS that has a size limit but that the drive is of a newer type that is not supported by the bios.
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I'm having trouble getting any graphics cards to work! I keep getting resource conflicts that I can't resolve, has anybody else had similar problems?
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jihmbo
I'm having trouble getting any graphics cards to work! I keep getting resource conflicts that I can't resolve, has anybody else had similar problems?
I've never seen that problem. I have both a GeForce 7600GT and a ATI Radeon HD 4670 that both worked beautifully under XP 32bit. I am currently using the onboard video though, trying to turn it into a backup box (meager with 2x320G), so the fan noise from the video has to go.
Funny thing about this coming through today is I was trying to turn this box into a restore backup box TODAY. Search for the RESTORE project on sourceforge, I can't post any URL. It's based on Ubuntu, and it doesn't play nice with the RAID controller though, so I am installing XP right now as I type this, and I'll RAID 1 that and try to find some good XP cross-platform backup software.
I think at the end of the day I'm going to end up getting a Synology DS210j two 1TB drives:
Not sure what to tell you, what kind of video card is it?
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I also had an ATi HD4650 and a Geforce 7300GT work in mine without problems.
Sorry I can't be of any help.
I wonder if it is just a power issue. Have you tried unplugging some devices such as the CD drive or floppy drive and remove any PCI card. If you can get a PSU tester to make sure your PSU is working properly.
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I've solved the problem!!! All I needed to do was update the bios! As simple as that, problem solved immediatly. So anybody trying to install Windows 7 on a shuttle st20g5 should do a bios update first