I have been building my own, and friends, computers for years. Recently I read some great stuff about the ECS K7S5A + AMD 1400 Athlon + DDR Combo so I built a few of them for me and some friends.
The first two systems kept resting on their own. They would just seem to turn off and on. I posted this problem here at Tom's and was recomended to get a new Power Supply. I purchased two different brand Power Supplies (HEC and Enermax), both have the AMD recomended dual fan construction. They are 340 or 350 Watt. I just have the board, Video, HD, Floppy, CD-ROM, so this should be enough power. It didn't solve the problem.
After checking all the BIOS settings, and reinstalling the OS. I updated device drivers, and combed through everything I know (may not be a tech, but this is not my first system). I replaced the boards. and the problem was solved. My system goes blue screen with a memory dump message every now and agian, but it beats the daily reset.
I figure it was the boards and I would fulful another request for a system. This one gets the memory dump error before I can install Win2k. I have tried 4 times now and I can't finish the installation of the OS.
I can't seem to flash the BIOS because the files from the ECS Web site are no good. They just write characters to the screen.
Here is the configuration of the new system (mine is very similer):
AMD Athlon 1400 Mhz (266Mhz)
ECS K7S5A mainboard with sound and NIC
Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM
WD 10 GB Hard Drive
Leadtek GeForce MX AGP
Mitsumi CD-ROM
3Com 56K WinModem
Enlight 300W AMD Recomended PS (not dual fan)
If you have some advice or suggestions, I am all ears. If you are considering this systme for yourself, I would strongly advise against based on my experience now with several of these systems with two MoBO replacements.
<font color=red><i>such madness</i></font color=red>
The first two systems kept resting on their own. They would just seem to turn off and on. I posted this problem here at Tom's and was recomended to get a new Power Supply. I purchased two different brand Power Supplies (HEC and Enermax), both have the AMD recomended dual fan construction. They are 340 or 350 Watt. I just have the board, Video, HD, Floppy, CD-ROM, so this should be enough power. It didn't solve the problem.
After checking all the BIOS settings, and reinstalling the OS. I updated device drivers, and combed through everything I know (may not be a tech, but this is not my first system). I replaced the boards. and the problem was solved. My system goes blue screen with a memory dump message every now and agian, but it beats the daily reset.
I figure it was the boards and I would fulful another request for a system. This one gets the memory dump error before I can install Win2k. I have tried 4 times now and I can't finish the installation of the OS.
I can't seem to flash the BIOS because the files from the ECS Web site are no good. They just write characters to the screen.
Here is the configuration of the new system (mine is very similer):
AMD Athlon 1400 Mhz (266Mhz)
ECS K7S5A mainboard with sound and NIC
Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM
WD 10 GB Hard Drive
Leadtek GeForce MX AGP
Mitsumi CD-ROM
3Com 56K WinModem
Enlight 300W AMD Recomended PS (not dual fan)
If you have some advice or suggestions, I am all ears. If you are considering this systme for yourself, I would strongly advise against based on my experience now with several of these systems with two MoBO replacements.
<font color=red><i>such madness</i></font color=red>
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