What's supposed to happen when the thermal shutdown of an ECS K7VTA3 v. 8 mobo (Athlon/Duron) kicks in? Does the computer shut down completely, or...

larrymoencurly

01-10-2004 08:20 PM
larrymoencurly

I purchased a K7S5A a couple of years ago and figured I'd upgrade the MB before I needed more USB ports than the 2 on the back of the board. Lo...

Gary Beard

01-10-2004 04:24 PM
G.E. Parmelee III

Can anyone recommend a good quality heatsink for a K7S5A Pro with an Athlon XP 2000+. This is my wife's system and it's running pretty cool with...

G.E. Parmelee III

01-10-2004 02:37 PM
Shep©

I want to use the adaptive clock speed feature of speedfan "Automatic clock control feature" but every time that I change the system clock...

Charlez

01-10-2004 11:38 AM
Charlez

Hi :o) After a Biosupdate on the ECS A530 Desknote is my Laptop like dead. The Power LED is on, but the Diplay stays dark. Any sugestions how to fix...

Michael Mantz

01-10-2004 11:08 AM
Michael Mantz

I was recently forced to upgrade my system, i had an amd 2000xp in which the stock heat sink melted onto the processor. i assume the fan failed and...

brian

01-09-2004 08:44 PM
Rotes Sapiens

hi i just reinstalled my xp os and i have some problems with my audio controllers the Xp cant recognize it and i think it got a conflict with my pci...

Oren

01-09-2004 04:57 PM
Richard Haygreen

I was helping a friend of mine install a new system with a k7som+ motherboard and am having major problems. Initially I couldn't get it to power up...

darryl

01-09-2004 02:59 AM
mjh

I've noticed that many times when help is requested, there is no follow-up post telling how it all turned out. Here's a follow-up post for those...

Chuck Olson

01-08-2004 04:11 PM
Chuck Olson

I just bought an ECS K7VTA3 ver. 8c mobo and noticed that it has only about a third as many electrolytic capacitors as most mobos. Has anyone ever...

larrymoencurly

01-08-2004 04:05 PM
jeffc

I have this board and an Athlon XP 2100 CPU. I found out I have a spare fan which I used to use on a Celeron 500 MHz. It's a rather thick heatsink...

Larry R Harrison Jr

01-08-2004 08:14 AM
PJx

Not quite sure where yor location is, but it is a rather easy part to get, though mail order or ebay might be your only options. A little...

Brian Campbell

01-07-2004 01:41 PM
Brian Campbell

I have a AMD XP 2000 chip and going to buy another k7s5a board to run it...is there a certain revision or production date I need to know? I have a...

Jammers

01-06-2004 09:44 PM
Jammers

Anyone got ECS P6S5AT? I would like to know how to mod/raise Vcore for Tualatin Celeron 1200.

John Smith

01-06-2004 05:51 PM
Brian Campbell

The documentation and all the reviews i've read say two totally different things. The doc at http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/manual_l7.html says...

kevins_news

01-06-2004 03:38 PM
Bill

Have you ever tried wake on lan with stripped version of L7S7A2? With onboard lan or with a PCI card? Is it possible? I tried many times but no...

Slang

01-05-2004 06:14 PM
Slang

Hi, I want to flash my bios of my P4ITA ver 1.0, 06/14/2001 but the one I try to install from ECS web page gives me the following error: "The...

Jose Mari Q.

01-05-2004 03:49 PM
Jose Mari Q.

Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device. Bios takes a long time to...

Steve Friedman

01-05-2004 12:45 PM
Mike Tomlinson

Hi Folks, I have a strange booting issue with my K7S5A Pro and an IBM DeskStar 180GXP (80GB) disk drive. I installed my OS (Gentoo Linux) on the...

Dennis Hammer

01-04-2004 08:18 AM
Shep©

I just hosed the bios in my K7VZA, and rather than spend the $25.00 to have badflash fix it, I ordered a k7s5a Pro. In the interim, I am now using a...

Bilar Crais

01-04-2004 04:45 AM
Christian

does any know what AMD CPU this mobo support? I'm trying on the web i can't fine article concerning this mobo?

Red Cloud

01-03-2004 04:49 PM
Erik Alvar

I just bought an ECS K7VTA3 v. 8.0C mobo with 1.6 GHz Duron and 9/22/2003 BIOS. I went into the BIOS' PC Health Status screen to enable the...

larrymoencurly

01-03-2004 03:22 AM
larrymoencurly

I was helping my father install a new video card in his computer over the holidays and we ran into a problem that we weren't able to figure out. His...

Scott Slater

01-02-2004 05:00 PM
Scott Slater

Hi all, Recently I purchased a new motherboard from Fry's Electronics, and today finally got around to installing it. Its an ECS (Elitegroup)...

Robert Marshall

01-02-2004 04:07 AM
Robert Marshall

Hi, I have a K7VTA3 machine I would like to use as a webserver. However, after a long period unattended, this machine seems to hang for no reason....

Richard Brockie

01-01-2004 10:10 PM
Richard Brockie

Hi Folks, I'm typing to you now through a AMD Duron 1400Pro+ (whatever the Pro is about) soldered to Elite's K7SOM mainboard and I'm wondering about...

NewsGroupie

01-01-2004 03:38 PM
William Park

Hi, can anyone help? On Saturday I purchased an ECS K7VTA3 mobo and AMD Athlon 1900+ CPU. Have had all sorts of problems, one of which is this: The...

LazzaH

01-01-2004 02:52 PM
Richard Brockie

This has probably been hashed over a million times by now, but in my search of this NG I haven't seen any solutions, so I'm going to ask again :) I...

John Mason

12-31-2003 06:42 PM
JM

Hello, My System is nearly two years old. AMD 1700 XP+, ECS K7S5A, 2x256 MB DDR266 from Apacer, 300 W Codegen PSU, 64 MB PixelView GEForce2 TI, AVM...

Carsten Pieper

12-31-2003 09:21 AM
Carsten Pieper

Guys, please excuse my ignorance but................ I'm looking to upgrade my VGA card to an FX5600 which has AGP8 support. The mobo only supports...

Phil Rodda

12-30-2003 03:08 PM

I have the ACL100P chipset on my mobo. Realtek took over Advance logic, and I had this file on my trusted PII 400Mhz machine. I went back to the site...

Aosmosis

12-30-2003 02:26 PM
Aosmosis

In ASUS manuals, it always tells you which PCI slots share IRQs with what. I am trying to figure out the same with this board. I need to know if...

Me

12-29-2003 06:25 AM
Me

I want5 to upgrade my CPU on K7S6a from an atlon 1400 to athlon 2400+. I currenly am using 512mb PC133 memory. Do I need to upgrade to DDR memory...

Joseph Murphy

12-28-2003 04:51 PM
Zaphod Beeblebrox

I am thinking to upgrade from a K7S5A with Athlon XP 1900+ and 512MB PC133 to either a VIA KT600 or Nvidia nForce2 mb with Athlon XP 2600+ (Barton)...

xxx73

12-28-2003 04:33 PM
Mike Tomlinson

Every Western Digital and Maxtor hard drive that I have bought over 137GB has came with a PCI Promise Technology, Inc. IDE controller card. They...

Alpine

12-28-2003 04:32 PM
Alpine

I can't get the board to recognize my Geforce4 vid card. I have gone into setup and changed the Plug & Play setting from PCI to AGP but it doesn't...

RichinVB

12-28-2003 02:12 PM
RichinVB

Anyone has this combination? Mobo ver 1.0 Bios 10F Or would a Thoroughbred XP 2400+ be better? lk

lk

12-28-2003 11:02 AM
lk

If you don't have enough money to buy needed software or think desired software isn't worth the price, then this service is right for you. We make...

nobody@nowhere33.yet

12-27-2003 09:25 PM
nobody@nowhere33.yet

Hello Again, On 12/23, I reported a problem trying to install a USB 2.0 5-port PCI card in the subject mobo. It was suggested that I might try a...

HarvB

12-27-2003 09:00 PM
HarvB

Hi Everyone, Does anyone know why my machine with the subject mobo will not boot when I install a USB 2.0 5-port PCI card (SIIG Model US2245)? I...

HarvB

12-27-2003 01:42 PM
HarvB

i know the k7s5a ver 3.1 maximum is 137, but what is the max for the pro version? before flashing to updated bios? after? thx

Kbus

12-27-2003 08:14 AM
Steve Friedman

thinking of getting one of the radeon 9800 pro cards and would like to know if it will work ok in my k7s5a mobo. i currently use a geforce fx...

pwrberry@yahoo.co.uk

12-27-2003 05:18 AM
Winfried Posur

I have an ATI 9700 Pro card that is exhibiting crashes on the L7S7A2 motherboard when running any 3D or DirectDraw application (including the dxdiag...

Gregory S. Read

12-26-2003 07:33 PM
Aragorn Elessar

I want to upgrade my cpu and wonder what the optimum cpu my k725a board will allow? Just ran sisoft sandra and heres the specs for what ive got at...

Martin McGuiness

12-26-2003 02:46 PM
Nystagmus

hi everyone, I have a K7S6A (award bios 1.0f 11/25/2002), and I would like to buy a 160 GB hard disk. Will I see the whole 160GB or I will be...

Strudel Technirama

12-26-2003 05:37 AM
Strudel Technirama

I have an L7S7A2 mobo and want to add memory. The manual says it will take up to 3 gigs of DDR, but none of the web-site memory configurators...

12-24-2003 06:17 PM

Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of ddr 512 (2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100) Just curious. Probably won't...

Beacon

12-23-2003 05:24 PM
Zaphod Beeblebrox

Dear All, I'm having some problems with upgrading my GeForce2 to a DX9 compatible card. I have now tried an AGP Blaster5 FX5200 and an AGP Radeon...

Haminex

12-22-2003 08:47 PM
Haminex

I purchased an L7S7A2 support an AMD 2700+ and can not get it to post. The ECS web site indicates support for the 2600+ but does not show support of...

Scott Goings

12-22-2003 12:09 PM
Scott Goings

Hi there, I have a problem with my BeWAN ADSL USB Modem after upgrading my PC with a K7S5A Pro. All went (almost) well after installing the...

O. Marce

12-22-2003 07:55 AM
O. Marce