I'm interested in buying an ECS K7S5A-Pro motherboard, and would like
feedback from you all regarding this board.  Also, I have some specific
questions:
1)  I was wondering if any of you who have or had this board happened to run

I am looking at this deal
http://www.ateck.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=453056181
It is for a Syntax SV266A board with an XP 2400+ for $108 US. I am
considering using the 2400+ in my K7S5A v3.1 and putting my Duron 1.3G in

Hi! Could somebody tell me what is the largest HD the K7S5A Pro BIOS (the
latest release) can handle? Thanks.

Hi,
I bought a 160GB Western Digital HD during Christmas. The intend of
the HD is to put mostly media files. To cut a long story short, i
notice that the mp3's would jump around within a song. One time it

I am now using a Diamond Monster MX300 PCI sound card ( $100 US back when

What would be a good cheap PCI card to use to better hear 'directionally'
and clearer?

Has anyone come up with a solution to the "repeatable file corruption"
problem found on some ECS K7S5A motherboards (SiS 735) besides cutting
down the machine's speed?
I found I have this same problem and solved it by dropping my

My K7S5A/Duron1.3 combo seems to have given up the ghost after 2 years of
constant CPU intensive mpeg2 encoding (guess I got my $75 out of it). Fry's
had a K7VTA3/AthlonXP2200 combo on sale for $59 awhile back so I had picked
that up planning to upgrade; looks like the time had ...

I have a homebuilt PC, with the K7S5A 1.1, an XP 1700 CPU with OEM heatsink and
fan, 256M Kingston RAM, and assorted drives, etc, running under W2000.
Sunday night, I finished converting some raw DVD to MPEG. Only thing open was
Adobe Premier, and Outlook Express. (This is a ...

I don't usually buy ECS products but since this was for a
email/applications only system for my wife, I relented.  The board was
purchased about 9 months ago, assembled, and has been working
flawlessly.  Recently (last several weeks) She has been reporting

I'm having a problem getting a ECS L4VXA2 MB to work with MBM.
The MB uses the VIA P4X400 & VT8235 chipsets
The temps and voltages are displayed incorrectly.
Any ideas?

what is a normal celcius temp for a barton 2600XP on a K7VTA3 ??   thank you
pete rynas

Very randomly, the monitor of the PC turns off itself. Sometimes, it returns
on a few seconds later, exactly like if you change the frequency in the
display properties of Windows. Sometimes, it never come back but the LED of
the monitor stays up, like nothing was plugged. The ...

K7VTA3 V1
XP Pro.
Several weeks ago I built this PC with this MB and XP2600.
Everything works and runs as designed and expected. I have had

I am having trouble booting my new system, I installed pc3200 memory. I
would imagine this should work on the board. Or do I need to stick with
pc2700
Thanks

Yes, it happened again on my K7S5a rev 3.1 MB.
It happens just after checking the drives (all were recognized properly).
What I noticed this time was that the cpu speed was noted correctly on that
first screen (when it was first recognized) but by the time it finished