Elitegroups K7S6A
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Elitegroups K7S6A
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Value For Money
Ease of Set Up
Had This Elitegroups K7s6a Board Since It First Ca
had this elitegroups k7s6a board since it first came on the market in 2001 = its been excellent!!!!
only snag choose RAM carfully.
I Recently Tried Setting Up A Home System For Vide
I recently tried setting up a home system for video capture using an ECS K7S5A mobo and an Athlon 2400+. It would not work with 512Mb of PC2100 RAM. I was able to get the board to wake up once using 512Mb of PC-133 RAM, received the "battery low CMOS" error. The board thought the CPU was an 1800+. Seconds after this, the CPU smoked. Whatta deal... right. This board is a turkey.
I have a K7S5A motherboard....I found that if you FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS in the provided book, everything works well..I would assume the ***6A would be the same.
Tried it with PC133??!!! I think not....it doesn't have SDRAM 168 pin slots, which PC133 needs.
By default on first boot, the BIOS settings revert to Duron values. The Duron has a slightly lower core voltage tham the XP, but if you were using a non-Palomino core XP (they changed about 1800+) you will fry the CPU!!! That I think is YOUR fault and not the fault of the mobo!
Value For Money
In Contrast To The Another Reviewer Here I Have Bu
In contrast to the another reviewer here I have built 4 music computers for clients and the mobo installed flawlessly. For professional music purposes the SIS 745 chipset packs enormous punch for the dollar. At this price point there is simply no competition. The ASUS equivalent (a7s333) is 10% more expensive (yet still very cheap) and does not compete ...
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We Build Small Quantities Of Computers For Schools
We build small quantities of computers for schools, small businesses and home users. We have had quite a few of these boards in, specifically rev.3.1 and EACH one bar one failed to function properly. I have sourced our supplies from different hardware wholesalers and people like Maplins, and each one comes with problems. The main gripe is that they fail to boot at all. Then if you actually get one which boots, it has a tendency to "forget" which processor is running and revert back to initial settings i.e. the lowest. Practically all of the ones I have had go through my workshop displays "Bad Cmos battery" warnings on bootup and need a bios update to recognise any chip higher than 1100mhz. We have also had examples of these boards which initially seem to function fine, then collapse after a few weeks with boot problems. They don't like running 256 of DDR for some reason, even the best from crucial. This product is an abortion. Other resellers I purchase from have also had serious problems with this board. JLT computers in Lincoln sold eight to one company and SEVEN came back as faulty. Also when you can actually get one to run it is very picky on ram. It doesn't like Samsung. Good points? Its cheap.
I had the K7S5A board for about a year and a half, and I could not get it to work properly. I started out with a cheap PSU, but then upgraded to a 420 watt PSU. It didn't solve anything. I ditched the board and bought an Asus motherboard. No problems at all with it, even though I used the same RAM, video and sound cards with it. Sounds like the ECS motherboard was just a piece of garbage, and sounds as though other people had these problems as well.
Oh another thing Jan Simpson, don't buy garbage ram and expect it to run in an athlon system. Garbage ram makes for a garbage computer. Samsung makes TVs and monitors well, not ram. Take for instace hitachi, (also bottom of heap garbage) good tvs garbage hard drives (They manufacture for IBM). Had my drive 1 year, dead. IBM DESKSTARS suck tell your friends dont buy IBM (marked) hard drives.
People I have met using ks75a have NO PROBLEMS!, LIKE MYSELF, NONE! NEVER CRASHED IN A YEAR+! Running crucial ram myself, once at 256 then added a 512, now replaced 256 w/ 512 to give a gb. Posters claim of 256mb incompatability is BULL. Most athlon systems are power sensative, try spending some money and get a new PS if you have problems.
All real reviews agree that the K7S5A is a great board. Not excellent, but you didnt pay for an excellent board, you paid half.
ECS needs to get that new SiS chipset in, gonna be hard to beat invidias but I am completely satisfied with my K7S5A.
I was shocked when I read this review. I built a system around the K7S6A last month and it hasn't crashed once. For 50 quid, it's brilliant. Setting it up was no problem, it's extremely stable and supports all the hardware I am using. I am a home user and use mainly high-end games and Office XP on it. I would give the board 10/10 for value for money and 8/10 for performance. Obviously it's not on the same level as the latest Abit and MSI boards with the VIA chipset, but I would certainly recommend it to anyone on a low-ish budget needing medium-high performance. I'm using an Athlon XP1800+ and 256MB DDR RAM, and a 64Mb GeForce 2 MX440. This board performs better than the Abit KG7 in my other system which has an Athlon Thunderbird 1400, same RAM and 64Mb GeForce 2Ti.
I have to agree with Edd and the other comment and say these problems are associated with the k7s5a version. As far as I'm aware there is no rev3.1 of the k7s6a and all the above problems I have encountered myself and like Edd the reason is simple, nothing to do with cooling issues or anything complex but quite simply the k7s5a is a very picky m/b when it comes to power supplies.
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I Bought This K7s6a Motherboard By Elitegroups Som
I bought this K7S6A motherboard by Elitegroups some time ago and with it i replaced my good old faithful servant (Dual 500mhz Xeon SLOT-2) With an Athlon XP 2000+. I tried to boot it up with an BeOS bootdisc but it failed @ finding the Hard drive. I tried all patches but nothing.... Then eventually i gave up and installed the sour operating system by the name "Micro$oft Window$ XP". It booted as i expected and worked perfectly. But when i started Quake 3 i had below 200fps *Rubbish* i thought but then i read the manual and figured out that i should install the AGP-drivers *duuh* so i did and now i got 9032 in 3dMark and over 300fps in Quake 3. I would love this card if i could have run the perfect OS (BeOS) on it but all you BeOS users !!!DONT BUY THIS CARD!!! bt if you are happy with an Window$ computer this is an excellent mobo. That was all i had to say hope i have helped you out in some way.
//JuDgEn
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