Crash !!!

You may recall I said "I am still waiting for my first crash" a few weeks after I got my SiS735 board.

Well, it finally did happen. My ECS K7S5A crashed for the first time.. ugly crash as well, blue screen of death with some reference to atapi.sys while playing RTCW.

To put things in perspective, that was after 5 weeks, running 24h/24h Seti@home / Adobe Premiere DV editing and playing Return To castle Wolfenstein on an overclocked Geforce MX on windows XP beta (build 2505).

Man, I gotta love this board.... dirt cheap, very fast, and I'd still say rockstable. I can live with one crash a month on a beta OS with a heavily overclocked video card.

One footnote though, ECS seems to have a more than average DOA rate. Some say even in excess of 10% RMA. IF you look at the board here:
http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbc [...] =forum&f=4
you will see quite a few users that had to RMA it, but then ended up with rockstable platform.. If you're not willing to take the gamble, it might pay off to wait for a SiS735 board from abit, asus or MSI & co.

---- Owner of the only Dell computer with an AMD chip

Jeez meltdown, why do you hate AMD so much? Did AMD leave you at the altar or something? LOL

"There's no such thing as gravity, the Earth just sucks"

>but you pups like take it with a smile from AMD which has
>a far greater RMA rate that usually scales up in line with
>their clock freq's.

I have never ever heard of any cpu that was DOA. intel of AMD. Maybe you have other substantial information that you would like to share with us ?

---- Owner of the only Dell computer with an AMD chip

I just got the ecs board(building a computer for a friend) and it wont boot but once every 10 tries.(have to unplug to make it work) clearing cmos dosent help. Sometimes it dosent see my cdrom, other times it does. I hate this board!

Athlon mp and other websites say I have to unlock the processors voltage to make it work, so I will try that in a little while.(after dinner). If not that swap psu, thats all I know how to to. If it dont work, returning to frys!

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

Im just pissed cause I put it together and the guy came over without calling thinking it would be done, and he had the pleasure of watching me turn it on and off and jiggle wires for an hour before giving up and going home.

how embarassing!

I think I should work on it right now!



~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

Yes, I sure think.. what a wealth of information. Look at these <b>latest </b>articles:
"High end K6-2 processors and overclocking"
"Overclocking the Athlon 500"

Go spam somewhere else

---- Owner of the only Dell computer with an AMD chip