ID motherboard revision on ECS K7S5A

[unclebabar]

anybody remember the good old K7S5A? Is there a way to figure out the motherboard revision number on this thing? it's supposed to be silk screen on the board, but mine just says K7S5A. There is a new bios for it (well 2004) that adds Duron 1.8 support but it's only marked for revision 1.1 ond 3.1. I seem to remember there being a 1.0 but not sure. I also rember there was a ECS forum on the www.ecsusa.com website but that seems to have disappeared.

 

[Peter]

Not important. All revisions of the board from 1.0 to 3.1B run the same BIOS, only v5.x ("pro" revision w/ USB 2.0 controller and w/o gameport) needs another.

In other words, put the latest BIOS in, and enjoy your Duron.

 

[unclebabar]

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I wonder why they didn't label the bios for 1.x-3.x instead of 1.1-3.1. The ECS site uses the .x notation for some of the K7S5A drivers (which I guess might not matter as much).

Well, I'll see. I'm a little gun shy after having a bad flash on this board (many years ago) and another board recently. Luckily the ECS was recoverable with a floppy but the other board wouldn't POST. May have been a bad board though.