K7S5A

Ive been buiding pcs for many years now and im totaly shocked over the ECS SIS K7S5A - This xmas ive built sevral of these PCs with AMD XP 1700 - 1800 - 2000 and all the 1700+ and 1800+ do not work at a 133 Mhz speed what so ever.

ECS has relesed sevral fixes for there Bios and Not one has worked. The XP 1700 Even comes up under the post Screen as a "Mobile XP 1700+" WTF. the XP 1800 just will not go 133/133 and refuses to boot ...

My advise to any one reading this forum and looking for a Main bord -

Just becuase ECS has "RECOMMEND BY TOMS HARDWARE GUIDE" Stamped all over there boxes. Stay away from them there Rubbish and do not work with XP 1700 and XP 1800 Thats a fact.

The ram is of High or real good qualty . I even used the ram out of my Own PC wich is well hammerd and over clocked and never faulted on me ever - if you look on ECS main Support page you will see a Huge list of PPl complaining about this problem wich there were supposed to have fixed with a bios relese but never fixed a thing at all ...

ECS realy have messed up - one thing i did notice though was the die colour on the XP 1800 + were one brown now its a green colour on the new cpu's .... has AMD changed the way it makes these cpu's l8ly !!!!

there are 3 version of K7S5A - the first one (ver 1.1) being very very stable the new Relese being version 1.3 on the PCB is very very unstable. this is no joke.

I have built many computers containing the K7S5A (ver 1) and there are all stable and run with no problems. all of the ver 1.3 K7S5A have prblems except with the 2 Ghz chips. I am haveing to fork out for my customers and Buy them all 2 Ghz processers as there XP 1.8 Ghz are just not working on there MB.