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meccaboy858

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Bought a couple of combos for some machines I'm building and their both ECS K7S5A + XP2000 cpu combos. Now I've built one machine already and its works great. But now I'm working on this second machine and it wont let me load an OS on it. It will go through loading all the drivers but then blue screens on me. I've tried almost everything I can think of. I've switched ide cables, ram, cdroms, motherboards, power supplies, cmos batteries, video cards, even got a new hard drive. What in the world is going on?! I've tried loading Xp and 2K and they both freeze up at the same spot. I've gotten config_initialization_failed, bad_pool_callers, and a couple of other ones. I know the parts I've switched with work becuase they work on the other systems. So whats the hang up?
 
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Lifer
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Ahh yes, the wonderful fry's combo. I guess misery loves company. ;)

Try setting the FSB/MEM to 100/100.

Are you using SDRAM?
 
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i will guarantee it is the fsb problem. i have had 3 of these boards and 1 has worked. i had tried sdram and ddr in all boards. if you are not using ddr ram, get some. if that doesn't fix the problem, it is the board, not your cds or other equipment.
 
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meccaboy858

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Well I clocked it down and was able to install the os, but what do I do now about the FSB issue? It's still not stable at 133, bad board return?
 
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I had this happen to my ECS K7S5A as well. In my case a 256mb ddr stick of crucial ram went bad on me =\. Took me about 3 frustrating hours to figure out that the ram was the culprit. I'm betting it is the ram.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: meccaboy858
Well I clocked it down and was able to install the os, but what do I do now about the FSB issue? It's still not stable at 133, bad board return?
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Try different sticks of ram. If you're using SDRAM, get some DDR.

It's completely possible your ram is good, but the mobo just doesn't like it, it happened to me.

 
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meccaboy858

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Gotcha, gonna look out for some crucial. This sucks, I've put in some PNY DDR 256MB from CompUSA and the Kingston 256MB DDR from Office Depot and both have been rejected. Thanks for the help guys, I'll try and keep ya updated.
 
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this is beginning to sound clichéd, but 'it also happened to me'.
i ended up going to a friend's and installing XP on one of his systems.
the system would start to boot up, but then gave a blue screen error and crashed.
it would state some error regarding a system error and windows having to shut down because of it.

now, i know the hard drive is fine, as is the processor.
i'm not sure about the ram, and i'm most definitely sure its the mainboard (the ECS K7S5A (may you burn in hell, SiS chipsets!)).

thus far, i havent bothered to solve the problems.
i might just rip the system of its viable parts, sell some, and use others in another machine i have.
 
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SuperSix

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Just for grins.. put the memory in the 2nd slot..

I have an ECS here board to be RMAd that does the same thing as yours if the nenory is in the first bank, works great in the 2nd..
 
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meccaboy858

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Originally posted by: SuperSix
Just for grins.. put the memory in the 2nd slot..

I have an ECS here board to be RMAd that does the same thing as yours if the nenory is in the first bank, works great in the 2nd..
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I already delivered to the guy, telling him that its going to be an on going project, but for now he'll have to settle for what its going at right now. But man if that is it, i'm gonna kill that board...
 
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I had Fry's combo (K7S5A & XP1800+); I was never able to even finish formatting the drive with it - it would just screw up the drive and seed it with errors. After spending 3 days trying to figure out whats going on I returned this junk and bought something else ...

These Fry's deals are like a lottery; if it works out of the box you may have done a good deal; otherwise you'll start to buy a different RAM, power supplies, cables, drives ... just to find out that you spend so much you could afford to get top of the line motherboard at the very beginning, without the headache and all that lost time. Fry's deals are almost always a loss for me lately...with exception of 2 Maxtor 60GB drives, those work fine.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: meccaboy858
Gotcha, gonna look out for some crucial. This sucks, I've put in some PNY DDR 256MB from CompUSA and the Kingston 256MB DDR from Office Depot and both have been rejected. Thanks for the help guys, I'll try and keep ya updated.
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I have two sticks of crucial DDR and it seems stable. It'll run prime95 overnite at 133/133.

That being said, I agree with the above, you might want to consider just cutting your losses, taking the crap back, and spending the extra 50-100 dollars to get a good mobo. I've easily wasted more than 100 dollars worth of time trying to get this thing to work.



 
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Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: meccaboy858
Gotcha, gonna look out for some crucial. This sucks, I've put in some PNY DDR 256MB from CompUSA and the Kingston 256MB DDR from Office Depot and both have been rejected. Thanks for the help guys, I'll try and keep ya updated.
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I have two sticks of crucial DDR and it seems stable. It'll run prime95 overnite at 133/133.

That being said, I agree with the above, you might want to consider just cutting your losses, taking the crap back, and spending the extra 50-100 dollars to get a good mobo. I've easily wasted more than 100 dollars worth of time trying to get this thing to work.
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Funny.. the money you save on buying an ECS is offset by buying more expensive (albeit very good) memory..
 
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Originally posted by: SuperSix


Funny.. the money you save on buying an ECS is offset by buying more expensive (albeit very good) memory..
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Ugh, seriously. The best part I love about the support community for this mobo is they tell you to buy super high quality everything you use with this board. Which actually makes this board more expensive in the end than a board that didn't cost so much up front.

The next time I'm passing thru the area that fry's is in, I'm gonna get an exchange. I know some of these boards work at 133 with SDRAM cause I've seen it with my own freaking eyes. It sucks to have 1.25 gigs of high quality, name brand PC133 sdram sitting around doing jack.


 
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meccaboy858

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Ok, I've tried pulling ram out off of another ECS K7S5A board running an XP1600+ @ 133 FSB and putting it into the board with the XP 2000+ and it still doesn't run stable @ 133. Any ideas??
 
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Originally posted by: meccaboy858
Ok, I've tried pulling ram out off of another ECS K7S5A board running an XP1600+ @ 133 FSB and putting it into the board with the XP 2000+ and it still doesn't run stable @ 133. Any ideas??
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Try running the 2000+ in the 1600+ system.

Thorin

 
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