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K7S5A Pro board and W2K - Anyone report any probs?

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Selvarin

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I purchased an ECS K7S5A Pro board with Athlon XP 1700 CPU, 256 MB DDR 266-mhz Ram with the intent of using it as the base for a new computer I was building for a sister's friend. I have Windows 2000, installed it, everything seemed fine. However, when installing Norton Internet Security 2002 (or the W2K service pack 3 updte) it invariably gets to what it calls a corrupt bin file or somesuch and stops installation. It also can't seem to find the drivers for the video controller, the USB controller, and the PCI something-something (Yes, the lack of sleep shows doesn't it?). At first I thought maybe the cd-rom or hard drive was reading wrong, but the problems persist after getting them replaced with newer models. I know for a fact that the files in question are NOT corrupt, so I'm thinking it could be a hardware issue. For those who have the board, I have the CPU setting at 133/133 mhz on the CPU PnP Setup Page of the Bios (I've tried 100/133 Mhz but that drops the XP to 1.1 ghz and doesn't seem to be any more helpful than the previous setting). I've never had problems like this before, it's driving me crazy.
 
I have the same mobo running an XP1800 @ 1693mhz (143fsb/ram). I had a 300W antec ps, and things didnt work well. os installation would always fail. screen would look blurry and hardlock. got a 360w ps, and everything is dandy now. Thats the only problem i've had with this mobo. I dont' really know what could be wrong with yours though.
 
Four such boardswith Win2k now, and all were fine. You (a) don't have a good PSU for it or (b) it could be time for an RMA on the board. Just because I've either built or helped install software on a total of 26 of the various K7S5As so far w/ no problems doesn't mean bad ones aren't out there.

Edit: Good PSU, IMO: Enhance 300w, Enermax 300, Enlight 300w. Nothing expensive, just nothing super cheap either.
 
Muchos thankos for the responses! *bow* I figured out what was happening, finally, sometime around 1 or 2 AM. For some reason, the board didn't like the 256 MB DDR 266-Mhz Ram, so I took the old 128 MB pc-133 Ram from the old system and put that in. Bingo, problem solved! I'm still uncertain why the DDR was the issue. There's only one particular setting in the Bios--133/133 mhz--that allows for the XP 1700 to run at the proper speed (1.47 ghz), to get the Sdram to list at 100 the cpu itself would have to be set at a lower speed (which wasn't a solution since it didn't fix the corruption errors). It's no great loss, the DDR was added to my home system so now I have 512 MB PC 2100 ram--and it works perfectly, no errors. The other computer runs fine, and using the old Ram allowed me to drop the price of the upgrade.

 
It's picky; use the DDR elsewhere. There are occasionally known-good RAM sticks that it doesn't like. I never had trouble w/ Kingston. Also: The count is up to 27 tonight.
 
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