Losing BIOS settings on ECS K7S5A mobo

[19oconnor]

I recently bought an upgrade package consisting of K7S5A ECS mobo and AMD Athlon 1800+ CPU, 256 SDRAM, ATI RAGE PRO 128 32M AGP card plus 60G HD in a Power Tower case. The vendor was kind enough to put rest of my old peripherals FD, CDR & CDRW for me.
To get the PC going, I went into the BIOS to set the date and time and then set the FSB to 133MHz to make the CPU run at 1.5GHz. Formatted the HD to NTFS format using WINDOWS XP professional CD and then installed all the drivers for LAN, modem etc. supplied on a CD by ECS. Next I installed WINDOWS XP Professional and then loaded all the other application SW.
The problem I am experiencing is that randomly my PC clock, date and FSB are reseting to their default values. When the FSB defaults to 100MHz the CPU runs at 1.12GHz. This has happened to atleast 5 times in the last three months. I have made several attempts in recreating the problem/ situation but have not succeeded.
To set things right in my PC, I go into BIOS and change the FSB to 133MHz. The date & time I change it from WINDOWS. I am running McAffee antivirus all the time.
I have explained this to the vendor and he has not been able to assist in identifying the problem or correcting it.
I will appreciate any help in identifying and correcting the problem so that the BIOS setting do not randomly take on default values.

 

[edfair]

Usually a problem with the battery. Have you tried to change it? Ed Fair
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[smaxted]

I too am having the same problem with two of my ECS K7S5A boards...and no it's not the battery... Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted

"Another day, another problem"

 

[xomcat]

If you go to the ECS section @

http://www.ocworkbench.com

, you'll find a ton of references to this problem.As far as I know there is no consenus,but there was some success with some people.Try there.

 

[smaxted]

thanks XOMCAT I greatly appreciate that!! Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted

"Another day, another problem"

 

[just1guy]

TO:19oconnor
ECS makes 3 mobo of this model: K7S5A v3.x
K7S5A pro.
K7S5A+
So I don't know which you have.

Also you should check out the latest bios upgrade and determine if it addresses this issue in the upgrade. Also check to see if the Vendor put a palomino CPU chip. They tend to have problems with this board.