Calling all ECS K7S5A (SiS735) motherboard owners!

[xirtam]

Took the board out of the box last Thursday. Wouldn't post. RMA'ing it to Newegg, approved Friday.

 

[popcicle]

For anyone who may be interested, Mr. Athlon (who has done a ton of research correcting problems
with this Mboard), can be found at this Link.

Here

Luck.

 

[hojl]

this mobo is pretty nice..
it was so easy to set up like my old BX and unlike my VIA based dullie ACK!.

 

[Mltsao]

This board is soooo nice. So nice that i bought 5 of them.... they have all been perfect for me needs.


xirtam - When you tried to power on your motherboard did you have the CMOS jumper on normal operation?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Nice board, no problems with it whatsoever... Absolutely spectacular bang for the buck! Just make sure you get a solid power supply to match it as I hear it is very picky. I'm using a 350W Antec

-Ice

 

[Evadman]

I have a few systems running here, and a few that I have built. Some with durons, some Thunderbirds, and one XP. Some @ 100 FSB, some at 133, and 2 at 2100 DDR.

Zippo problems so far.

 

[JoeFoster]

Ok maybe my problem can be solved here.


I have the following:

ECS K7S5A from newegg
EVERCASE E4252WEF25, Intel P4 / AMD, 10-Bay, 300W P4 from newegg
Athlon XP 1700
512 PC133 PNY Ram stick

Nothing happens when I push the power button. The powersupply fan will not turn on. I had no other 300w power supply to see if it was the power supply so I had to use a 175watt from a dell. It would not power up also.

Cmos jumper is set to normal. What could it be?

 

[Buz2b]

Go to the basics. Start with the Power Switch plug. Is it in the right place on the board? You can get a Power Supply tester made by Antec for around $12 or take it to a local shop and see if they will test it. However, it sounds like either the Power switch is not hooked up correctly or possibly the voltage switch on the back of the power supply (if applicable). Even if the Power Supply was of questionable quality it should still spin the fan and attempt to power up. Also check the ATX power connector on the board; just for giggles.

 

[hwstock]

<< Hello, hello! 🙂

If you own a ECS K7S5A (SiS735-based) motherboard, have you had any problems with it??
I'm tyring to collect as much information as I can before buying it for a friend.

Please post any issues you're aware of with this board.
Thanks! >>



K7S5A and AK31A life/death stats

The above is a distillation of two Anandtech polls, for two popular motherboards. My opinion: many motherboards seem to have fairly high DOA or early death stats. Undoubtedly, there are bad boards from all manufacturers; but it is hard to know what fraction of those problems represent user errors (static discharge damage, man-handling CPUs during insertion or heatsink application, etc.), or recycling of returned boards by unscrupulous dealers.

Go to www.ocworkbench.com and check out the ECS forums.