20 Most Recent Shuttle AV40S Motherboard Questions & Answers

http://driverscollection.com/?H=AV40S%20(V1.0)&By=Shuttle Open the link and click on the "Click here to update all your PC's driver", it'll automatically update all your necessary drivers. Or try this, it's the latest version 3.0..http://driverscollection.com/?H=AV40S%20(V3.1)&By=Shuttle Good luck.

You can get the manual on link below under downloads at the end.

http://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/en/av40s_faq.htm#infofaq

In my experience if I cannot get a computer to boot after I have gone to the trouble of changeing out the board and CPU ,with known good ones, I suspect either something is shorting the board and I try it outside of the case or more likely the power supply is not preforming correctly.    A third possibility,though unlikely if it was running before,is that something is not hooked up properly. 

The red light indicates that that the ATA bus is set up properly, (same goes for many SCSI controller cards). On some mainboards it represents memory modules being under current. If the CPU was and AMD, then it is most likely history. Intel had thermal throttling much earlier, so it most likely is still OK. If your motherboard speaker is present or a functioning one is connected, it should report a dead cpu by a number of beeps. Check the cpu orientation and/or seating. (make sure you did not damage the cpu ceramic core when installing the heatsink -that killes most athlon/duron and P3 socket cpus)

Skotock, My guess is that you damaged your processor or some thermal grease (paste-like material that physically bonds your heatsink to your processor) is shorting something. Unplug your power cord, remove the heatsink and processor. Check the processor for surface cracks and bent pins. Make sure NONE of the thermal grease has oozed over the edge of the processor onto either the processor pins or the motherboard itself. This material is both thermally and electrically conductive and can cause shorts. If you don?t find anything let us know and provide us with as much details about exactly what you did and how so that we can continue to troubleshoot. If this did solve your problem please let us know and don?t forget to rate this posting.

If this was damaged 'In Transit' contact the company you bought it from and they may be able to supply you with a replacement. The damage was possibly due to bad packaging at their end or damage while the delivery company had it.

Optical drive is defective and in need of replacement.

Here is a site where you can download the manual. You will need Adobe reader(www.adobe.com) and look at lower right side of page. Make sure prior to installing that you un-check ANY third party software being listed as "Optional Offer" as, this could put something on your unit that may interfere with your anti-virus program. http://global.shuttle.com/products/productsDownload?productId=522 Hope this helps.