K7S5A resistor issue

[Kostya]

I believe that I read this somewhere on this website about an issue that the ECS K7S5A has with an improper resistor in the latter revisions of the board. Well, my board is currently collecting dust, and I have tried to find a solution, and I wanted to check if this resistor issue could be it.

My system is:
ECS K7S5A
T-Bird 1333 Mhz
512 DDR RAM
Geforce 2 GTS
IBM 75GXP HDD

In essense, I cannot get my system to do anything. It posts, but then if I try to install an OS, it dies during installation, and windows setup says something about it being a problem with Cache shadowing, or something along those lines. Linux just says there is an error mounting hda1 at 1:03. I know it's not an error with the hard drive, or the video card, since I have tried others, so I'm thinking it might be the resistor thing. My only doubt of this is because my system worked for quite a while before it just up and died suddenly, so the resistor issue seems a little dubious.

 

[Duvie]

I think you are talking about mrathlon at ocworkbench...He speculated this was causing issues with mobos but not like yours...It was causing memory errors and thus possible corruption in installs that led to mass instability...

Yours sounds like a bad board or a bad power supply...Even with the fame resistor the board booted up...

Ofcourse this is all speculation as many that thought this was the issue solved their problems with better ram and better rated power supplies (not necessarily just more wattage)...

YOu should have just rma'd this board awhile ago anyways...