because of the chipset, but it was a great board. I still have mine. If I run across a good deal on a chip for it, I may even replace the blown caps. K7S5A was the exception? In the K7S5A days, the motherboard forum had too many "K7S5A problem" threads ...

while reviewing video cards so i wanted to ask here. - Thanks for any suggestions Archived from groups: alt.games.delta-force () I use a cheap FX5200, 128mb, with a amd athlon 2400xp, ( 266mhz fsb ) 512 mb pc2100, on a ecs K7S5A, no problems, have...

Edited by apoc286 on 12/28/01 08:15 PM. Yes, I also do not recommend the ECS K7S5A. My new TBird 1333 on it seems to be pretty unstable compared to my Duron 700 on KT133. With the K7S5A, it has problems with the "sleep" function, crashes/freezes more often,...

using the K7S5A motherboard and have had no problems with them at all. The processors I used were a Duron 1.2GHz, Athlon T-bird 1.33GHz, and two with the Athlon XP 1800+. None of them had any problems, and all are still going strong as of today. All have...

Problems with stability on ECS k7s5a.... I recently built 2 almost identical machines. only difference is one has an original Geforce 256 DDR 32mb ram and a USR 56k. modem one has an extra NIC. A friend is experiencing the same problems with the same case,...

ECS K7S5A& Athlon XP 1800+. Well I am new to this fourm and I am having a bit of a problem with my new system which I have recently got which would be the ECS K7S5A Motherboard and a Athlon XP 1800+ CPU. Ok here is the problem, My PC freezes up every time...

Descartes Translation: I post at Toms Hardware, Therefor I am. :smile: ive had problems with the k7s5a, but not a DOA board... the first one was a problem with the memory the second board was a problem with the PCI and the third was the AGP, all problems...

of motherboards. My thirst for motherboard knowledge continues unabated. Call Me Old Surfer - Wet or Dry c/o Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall, UK Web Site should be fistral13: I have an old K7S5A based system and have had the lock-up problems described...

burner and sent it back to yamaha. turned out everything was a-ok with the burner. then i read that faq's about the k7s5a and that's one of the various problems people are having; corrupt cd recordings or it's not able to record at all. k7s5a is unstable with...

when attempting to use CPUs over 1.4GHZ on these boards, seems there was some problem with the regulators. I still would recommend an ECS board, but it has to be KT266A or above, not a K7S5A, the suspect of this problem. -- The worst of enemies shall be...