Presentation, Bundle and Manuals
he SB95P's presentation mimics that of almost all other XPC's in recent months. Orange and white are the dominant colours, the XPC is shown on a desk with Shuttle's XP17 LCD flat panel display and the general air that you cannot function as a human being without an XPC is given off.
The bundle is limited to the XPC Basics, a term I've come to coin for the sparse but necessary bundle of extra cables, CDs and manuals that an XPC requires for its owner to get it up and running. The SB95P v2.0 has more goodies than most, due to the need to supply the rails for adding disk drives, both hard and optical.
The SB95P v2.0 shares the same fairly terrible software extras CD as the ST20G5 does. The other CD is for basic XPC driver and utility software and the manuals cover the ICH6R's RAID functionality, setting the hadware up and the FB95 mainboard's operation. There's a floppy disk for F6'ing the disk driver during a Windows installation, and that's yer lot. Standard stuff and just what I expected to see before I opened the box.
Time for a look at the BIOS.
