Originally posted by: Peter
Hold your horses. ECS so far being unaffected by bad-capacitor-itis, you need to figure out what exactly is dying in your system. Anything is possible - and from a clogged up CPU fan, dirty/oxidized contacts on DIMM sockets and expansion card slots, down to a dying power supply unit there are MUCH more common reasons than a dying mainboard.
Apart from death by leaking capacitors, mainboard don't "just die" on their own behalf, usually. In the vast majority of cases, it's something else.
Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Shuttle AN35N-U. No extra stuff, just plain basics and overclocking.
My first-generation K7S5A finally (wore out/died/whatever) and I got the Shuttle AN35N Ultra to get going again. I certainly got my $62 out of my K7S5A, and I don't have many complaints about it, but having multiplier adjustment on this Shuttle is nice. How fast do you want to go today...?Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Shuttle AN35N-U. No extra stuff, just plain basics and overclocking.
Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Shuttle AN35N-U. No extra stuff, just plain basics and overclocking.
I have both the original K7S5A and the Pro version. The Pro works flawlessly.
Have you updated the BIOS? I've heard of some people not being able to run PC133 and then when they flashed the BIOS, it ran cheap PC133 perfectly. I'm going to try it next time I put the KS7S5A back in a case.My K7S5a hated PC133 memory, no matter what combo I tried, or how many different brands it just wouldn't work with more than one stick, switched over the DDR and no problems at all....
If you do this, you don't have to be amazingly careful: it's attached with double-sided tape.Originally posted by: CDRecorder
I've heard that the north bridge heatsink on many ECS boards doesn't work well because the thermal interface material doesn't transfer heat properly, causing instability. You might want to try to carefully remove the north bridge heatsink, clean it and the north bridge, and re-attach it with Arctic Silver thermal epoxy.