ecs K7S5A???

[wurmyhi]

IMHO,

The board has a bad rap. It's cheap and has a great feature set (DDR+SDR, NIC, Sound), decent performance, and was basically an unreal bargain. So, it hit a very wide audience - from the causal to frequent builder, and some of that audience ran into trouble and grumbled.

I'm buying one as a general spare today since newegg is blowing them out.

 

[CraigRT]

I built an Athlon 1700+ rig with a K7S5A, and I'd rather spend 2x as much money to setup a good board that actually works properly. I got it running in the end after a few hours, but it was far from the easiest setup I have ever seen... more like the worst setup I have ever seen... but it's working now and it only crashes occasionally. so i dunno...

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: incallisto
I have three systems running the K7S5A (latest revision and one first revision). They run flawlessly and I've never had a crash or issue with them on Windows 2000, Linux, or Windows XP Professional. I'm running Athlon XPs in two and a Duron in one. Each system has 512MB of Crucial PC2100 DDR. Very solid boards for the price.

Is that one Crucial stick or two? I've seen posts saying this MB often has problems running two sticks.

 

[PG]

Is that one Crucial stick or two? I've seen posts saying this MB often has problems running two sticks.

I've seen people saying that they had problems running 2 sticks of PC133 but I don't remember anyone having problems with 2 sticks of DDR.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: BigMoe
so i've heard lots about the ecs K7S5A mobo's about 50-50 good/bad. Question what board is ok and with last longer than 3 months version 1.0, 1.3 or ecs K7S5A-2 version 1.0?

One thing i don't like about this board is no support for STR.

 

[VTrider]

STR?

 

[yayoiz]

Please, anyone has info. on how the K7S6A is performing, it has only DDR slots,
thanks in advance...

 

[TheCorm]

I have built a system based on the K7S6A...seems stable and fast, a good successor to the K7S5A for the most part.

 

[yayoiz]

Thanks, there aren't many 5A around my area, I have to go for the 6A.

 

[incallisto]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: incallisto
I have three systems running the K7S5A (latest revision and one first revision). They run flawlessly and I've never had a crash or issue with them on Windows 2000, Linux, or Windows XP Professional. I'm running Athlon XPs in two and a Duron in one. Each system has 512MB of Crucial PC2100 DDR. Very solid boards for the price.

Is that one Crucial stick or two? I've seen posts saying this MB often has problems running two sticks.

It's one 512MB stick in each box. Sorry for the late reply.

 

[blade47]

I really like my K7S5A though it doesn't have any OC features which I really miss and the onboard sound isn't that great if you're planning on playing alot of MP3's.

 

[kmmatney]

I downloaded the Avance logic drivers for the on-board sound on my ECS K7S5A, and it seemed to improve things a bit. MP3s really sound quite decent now.

 

[IanWorthington]

We run 13 systems based off this mb, soon to be 14, excluding systems built for other people. No real problems to report.

We did have problems with mice lockups which usually, but not always, could be cured be unplugging/replugging the beast. I've since upgraded the drivers and 90% of those problems have gone away, though the ones which do remain cannot be fixed this way: requires the 3 fingered salute. Not proven that this is a mb problem though.

The only thing I'm not happy about is the unamplified sound out. I don't have a problem getting powered speakers, but its a problem for people who want to use their own headphones.

Anyone know how much longer it will be in production for? Have ECS any plans to pull it?

Ian
...

 

[Peter]

It's been around for well over a year now, which is a very long time for a standard mainboard. Won't be for much longer I guess ...