ECS 755-A2

[Bar81]

Alright how about you go talk to newegg and request the RMA'd boards, do an autopsy and let us know what you find out. They died, no other boards died. End of story. Give it up. I'm sorry VIA is crap but let it go already.

 

[Peter]

You could at least get your FUD right. The board we've been talking about doesn't use a VIA chipset ...

 

[Bar81]

I KNOW that, oh anal one. I was merely commenting that since I've insulted your precious VIA you haven't stopped bothering me.

 

[Peter]

Phase 3 - personal insults.

Do you even realize how pathetic you are? I play you like an organ.

 

[justly]

Bar8, Peters request to know "Exactly what blew up?" sounds reasonable. I remember seeing a post on another forum back when the ECS K7S5A was popular, saying how that board "blew up" and took the guys memory along with it. The thing is this guy also posted pictures, and someone noticed that he had put the DDR in the slot backwards (this was evident by the way the burn marks on the memory and motherboard lined up). Now I'm not saying that your ECS boards blew up because of something you did, but it could be possible and since you refuse to answer Peters question you are the one putting forth the doubt about what really happened.
I am also curious to know "Exactly what blew up?" or if you even looked at it.

 

[Bar81]

There was a 'pop' noise and the motherboards died. Jesus you are thick. If you want anymore specific than that Peter I suggest you take your organ playing self and find the mobos so you can determine what went pop.

I'VE ANSWERED THE DAMN QUESTION. That's it I'm done with this stupidity. First I'm pro nvidia, now I'm slinging mud at ECS. Peter you really need to get your libel straight.

 

[AkumaX]

i didn't know this thread was still going!

on a lighter note, i've managed to mod the bios of the 755-A2, added CPU VCore Adjust, and add Hammer FID/VID. I'm running a 3200+ newcastle 754 (2.2ghz) @ 10 x 240, 1.55v, ram @ 200mhz. My board came bios version 1.0b (which only allowed up to 232fsb), and i've found that 1.0c through 1.0g have fsb up to 255. however, 1.0c seems most stable to me.

maybe it is the ECS curse (i'm probably about 80% success rate (have owned many different ECS parts)), but to me at least, this 755-A2 seems to be a winner

 

[palouse]

How did you mod the bios to add VCore adjust? Is that from the link that you refenced?

 

[AkumaX]

i spent countless hours learning how to mod bioses, and after trying about 20+ programs i finally found one that worked. along w/ enabling vcore adjust, i added changing multiplier (which is why i can run the newcastle at 10x rather than 11x)