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...when you buy crappy kit. Next time do it right.

More like Elitegroup Computer Systems

They have been doing that for awhile (not with the 64bits though). Desknotes, a laptop without a battery (or a small desktop with a build in LCD) i-buddy. Personally, I dont see the point but there is someone out there who will buy anything.

>So... ECS is PC-chips? huh. something new...

I think so. Imagine this board with this board's colours. It's a spitting image! :-)

Actually, the K7S5A has turned out to be far more durable than any other PC Chips board I've ever met. I would actually say it's a fair board, but I just can't knowing PC Chips past.

So don't worry too much, just count yourself lucky! :-)

>I have a 1.47Ghz processor on my K7S5A...

You're lucky then.

These people haven't been so lucky.

This person seemed to think installing a hacked BIOS would solve the problem. It did. A perusal of ECS' site shows they've improved upon PCChips service (they provide BIOS updates for the K7S5A, so I'm assuming they didn't pirate this BIOS, or they've learned to hack it properly), but as of December/January ECS motherboards with the incompatible BIOS were still streaming into the store I worked at. The K7S5A BIOS support page doesn't list a specific 1.4 ghz fix, but it looks like they fixed it just in time for this year (BIOS V.01/11/09). I guess 3 months waiting time isn't too bad.

Perhaps with the BIOS fix this board isn't junk, but long-term reliability is definately not a trait associated with PCChips products, IMHO.

A lack of testing advertised features (and XP support was advertised on these motherboards) is sure proof the company doesn't care for its customers. This occasionally happens to name brand companies (Abit comes to mind) but is, in my opinion, the status quo for PCChips and their cronies. Maybe ECS will eventually escape the bad name of their suppliers -- they are providing far more support for their products than I expected to see.

As with all things, only time will tell. Perhaps in a year or two I might be able to forgive ECS prdocts for being PCChips knockoffs. We'll just have to see! :-)

Anyways,

Whip out that soldering iron and fix it yourself the manual way if you choose.

The FAQ will probably help explain this problem better than myself.

>I have a 1.47Ghz processor on my K7S5A...

You're lucky then.

These people haven't been so lucky.

This person seemed to think installing a hacked BIOS would solve the problem. It did. A perusal of ECS' site shows they've improved upon PCChips service (they provide BIOS updates for the K7S5A, so I'm assuming they didn't pirate this BIOS, or they've learned to hack it properly), but as of December/January ECS motherboards with the incompatible BIOS were still streaming into the store I worked at. The K7S5A BIOS support page doesn't list a specific 1.4 ghz fix, but it looks like they fixed it just in time for this year (BIOS V.01/11/09). I guess 3 months waiting time isn't too bad.

Perhaps with the BIOS fix this board isn't junk, but long-term reliability is definately not a trait associated with PCChips products, IMHO.

A lack of testing advertised features (and XP support was advertised on these motherboards) is sure proof the company doesn't care for its customers. This occasionally happens to name brand companies (Abit comes to mind) but is, in my opinion, the status quo for PCChips and their cronies. Maybe ECS will eventually escape the bad name of their suppliers -- they are providing far more support for their products than I expected to see.

As with all things, only time will tell. Perhaps in a year or two I might be able to forgive ECS prdocts for being PCChips knockoffs. We'll just have to see! :-)

Anyways,

Whip out that soldering iron and fix it yourself the manual way if you choose.

The FAQ will probably help explain this problem better than myself.

OK, I know, offtopic, but I have to get the truth out about this "all your base" thing... I've discovered where the guy that translated it is working... He wrote the faq for elitegroup's k7vza mainboard. Check it out here, it's absolutely unintelligible. :)