Interesting K7S5A story

[DieHardware]

I bought one of these boards(24/07/01 bios date) the end of July/early August and put a 900 Athlon in it. Memory scores sucked so I cut and penciled a few bridges on the cpu to run it at 933, needless to say memory scores increased nicely. Anyway I bought another K7S5A(9/20/01 bios date) yesterday and put my "933" in it and it would post but then give errors loading the OS. Took it out and penciled in the last L7 for 1.85v and still no go. All other hardware the same. Weird eh?

 

[Workin']

<< Weird eh? >>

Not weird at all with that POS board. That is a typical K7S5A story.

 

[Spike]

dude, shove it workin' The K7S5A is actually a pretty damn nice board, and for the price, you can't beat it. It is strange that he had problems with it the second time, but don't rag on this board, it runs stable as a rock, even with the XP 1800+ which is it not rated for

 

[DieHardware]

Actually the new board runs fine using a 750 or 1200 Athlon B, just thought it was interesting. I just bought a few more of these boards and some 750 Athlons and Viper V770Ultras-I think they'll make good performing bang-for-the-buck pc's for X-mas.

 

[Mitzi]

I personally like this board, I've built 2 machine round it and my friend built his machine using one. Not one of the machines have had any problems - but reading peoples posts here it does sound like this board is a little more temperamental than most other motherboards - I guess you get what you pay for.

 

[MoleX]

You need to go to www.ocworkbench.com and into ECS forum for many helpful and not so helpful posts

I have just setup a new K7S5A Rev5 with a AMD 1GHZ 266

I dont think i have had one problem that was out of the ordinary (for this board) and which could NOT be fixed.
Overall I love it, going from PII 400 to this was very very exciting, plus having so many people with this board and so many different configuration, the number of reported errors goes up propotionaly(SP?).

for a $125 shipped from newegg for cpu/mobo (fast turnaround of boards, wanted higher REV # and got it) you can't get a better deal unless you have a FRY"s damm east coasr.

MoleX

 

[Tom61]

Hey thanks MoleX! That's cheaper than I found it on pricewatch! (after shipping anyway... 2 more days 'till free ship is over at new egg)

Edit: can't find the combo! argh! $78 CPU+57mobo != $125 was it a special deal or something?

 

[Workin']

<< dude, shove it >>

Take a flying leap, loser! I've built more than a few systems around that board, and exactly 1/2 of them failed completely within the first 2 months. Sounds like a POS to me. God, I hate a battle of wits against an unarmed man. You'd think I was talking about his girlfriend. On second thought, maybe I am...

 

[DieHardware]

Insult somebody's girl, OVER THIS?!!?!! FLAME OFFFFFF!!! Workin' you F@#K*n troll and get out off my thread and back under the bridge where you belong! Man who is this loser?!?

 

[Workin']

Bite me, I didn't start it. I was replying to someone who flamed me, in case you couldn't tell. Also, it's a public forum, I'll post wherever I please. Tough luck if it doesn't meet your standards. Besides that, I didn't insult anyone's girl, unless their girl is a friggin' motherboard. Your reading comprehension could use some work.

<< Man who is this loser?!? >>

Look in the mirror and you'll figure it out.

Now let's move on. Everyone's got their shots in. Insults for everyone, no waiting. Have a great day.

 

[lotust]

thats is work together

 

[RossGr]

Once you get it running, don't brag to loud. Wait at least 2 months, after 2 months you should be good to go. Hopefully the later revisions of this board have cured some of the very real issues that exist. Because you have a working board does not mean that lemons to not exist.

 

[Pabster]

LOL

Just setup another glitch-free K7S5A (Rev 5) last night for a client. XP 1600+, 512MB Crucial PC2100. The usual stuff. Had it fired up in minutes, and rock solid. The guy was absolutely blown away by the speed -- of course, he was using an old Dell P2-400, but you get the idea

I've now used and installed over 50 of these boards without a single hitch. I'm hearing nothing but good. And they're pleased at the lower overall cost of their machine.

So I've got to say it again -- for $50-$60, you just cannot buy a better price to performance ratio. Period.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

<< for $50-$60, you just cannot buy a better price to performance ratio. Period. >>


Dat's what I'm talking about

 

[lotust]

ok My setup ( XP 1600+, 512MB Crucial PC2100) is workign awsome too Brag brag j/k



Im just happy to be with the speedy crowd again

 

[clumsum]

I have been reading similiar comments ...... eventually about ALL brands of mb's on these forums .................

It doesn't matter if they cost $179. or $79., you still read success stories and horror stories, many of them could be avoided by simply reading the mb manual before trying to run the board ............ if anyone (almost) has a problem, it's the (shitty) mb's fault, first thing!
However, (that said) ... some of the problem mb's will fail no matter how much expertise the person who assembles it has ..........!

I have two of the K7S5A's, one is the Amptron K7-830LM version of the board, they are stable, very fast and cheap (in-expensive).
Anand said from the start, they are not overclockers boards, just good and fast ..........!

I think it's great that a generic, oem targeted mb has caught on they way this one has, .... it has made a lot of other end-user mb manufacturers sit up and take notice!

This experience will force Abit, Asus, MSI, Intel, and all the others I've left out, ... to take a very long hard look at the quality and PRICE of the products they are providing us with.

In the end we will all benefit from the K7S5A experience ........................ PC Chips, ECS, Amptron, Chaintech and others have "raised the bar" that we all judge mb manufactures' products by ............... so ....

My hat is off to them .......
Bravo!

 

[jhook]

So far I have this board for about 5 months now and it rocks. I have Windows XP running and I have no problems yet.

My System:

ECS K7S5A Mother Board
AMD 900 MHZ Thunderbird
256 MEGS of DDR MEMORY
20 Maxtor 7200 RPM HD
GFORCE 2 with 64 Megs of memory
PC Tel AMR Modem
SOUND BLASTER LIVE Sound Card
Iomega 8x16x4 CDRW
DVD ROM 10x
Logitech USB Mouse
USB Scanner
Logitech USB PC Camera
Floppy
Keyboard
Generic Case with 300 Watt Deer Park Power Supply