Re: K7S5A Revisited

They are trash... I tried them with a Sparkle 400 PSU and crucial
memory... I also found a K7VZA laying around... It will bring up
attempt to boot but it is evident that it has BIOS problems...

Now I remember why we tried and quickly abandoned ECS/Alton/Lottery
mainboards..



On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:00:07 +0100, Shep© <> wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 09:24:10 -0800, In this world we created A.J.
>Rawls <> wrote :
>
>>I and another technician bought several K7S5A mainboards when the
>>mainboard was first released. We got a boot with one out of six
>>mainboards we purchased, so we left them alone and moved on to
>>different mainboards. I am closing my business down now and came
>>across the mainboards sitting on a shelf.
>>
>>Did anyone ever find out what the problem was with the initial
>>mainboards? Was a fix ever developed? I kind of hate to toss six
>>mainboards that may be useful to someone.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>A. J. Rawls
>>Anchorage, Alaska, USA
>
>Usually dirty/incorrect data in the BIOS.With no power to the board
>clear the CMOS.

The mainboards that I was attempting to salvage are trash... They are
some that I purchased for my business when the K7S5A first came out...
They did not work immediately so I stuck a half dozen on a shelf and
promptly forgot them... Now that I have time... I am trying to see
if they will work... Most don't. I managed to get a K7VZA working
when I discovered that some of the jumpers on the board were faulty (I
have seen that before).... The other boards are trash for me because
I don't have the time to work out problems and make a profit.... They
may be perfectly good projects for someone else.


On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:22:44 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
<> wrote:

>In article <>, A. J. Rawls
><> writes
>
>>They are trash... I tried them with a Sparkle 400 PSU and crucial
>>memory...
>
>In your opinion. I run a K7S5A and Windows 2000 24/7. It has been rock
>steady with 2x256 SDRAM (now 1x512 DDR), a GeForce 2Ti, a GeForce
>Ti4200, and now a GF Ti4600. Just upgraded the CPU from an Athlon
>XP1800+ to an XP2400+ and the machine flies. PSU is a Sparkle 300w.