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gargouille
IS-IT--Management
Hi all:
Interesting side note to this thread; as it was unfolding I had already ordered a K7S5A to replace a customer's motherboard.
I set the motherboard in a new case (with 350 watt AMD-approved power supply) and fitted it with an ATI Radeon 7500 64 MB video card, a new Lite On CDRW and the customer's old 30 GB hard drive and floppy and 512 MB PC133 SDRAM...so far, so good. (Although I'm beginning to think this video card can't hold a candle to my GeForce 3 Ti 200.)
MOF I have bought an ATI Radeon 9000 to put in my machine but I'm having second thoughts!
Interesting side note to this thread; as it was unfolding I had already ordered a K7S5A to replace a customer's motherboard.
I set the motherboard in a new case (with 350 watt AMD-approved power supply) and fitted it with an ATI Radeon 7500 64 MB video card, a new Lite On CDRW and the customer's old 30 GB hard drive and floppy and 512 MB PC133 SDRAM...so far, so good. (Although I'm beginning to think this video card can't hold a candle to my GeForce 3 Ti 200.)
MOF I have bought an ATI Radeon 9000 to put in my machine but I'm having second thoughts!
gargouille
IS-IT--Management
Another comment, paparazi:
This board booted 4 or 5 times okay and then would send me to be BIOS every time, saying the CMOS memory count was wrong, hit F2 to restore defaults. After going thru THAT loop 3 or 4 times, I finally went into the BIOS and set DRAM timing to Safe and it quit and settled down just fine.
This board booted 4 or 5 times okay and then would send me to be BIOS every time, saying the CMOS memory count was wrong, hit F2 to restore defaults. After going thru THAT loop 3 or 4 times, I finally went into the BIOS and set DRAM timing to Safe and it quit and settled down just fine.
As I say gargouille!
The SIS based K7S5A does tend to be very picky about memory and memory settings, it doesn't inspire you with the greatest of confidence, if you see wot I mean.
Thats primarily why we droped the board from our systems.
Tooooooo fussy! Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
The SIS based K7S5A does tend to be very picky about memory and memory settings, it doesn't inspire you with the greatest of confidence, if you see wot I mean.
Thats primarily why we droped the board from our systems.
Tooooooo fussy! Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
I guess your priorities change with the knowledge that whatever you send out the door or mail to a customer can just as easily be returned, that tends to mind focus on what is and isn't important in a system build.
when you are building one machine you can put up with the motherboards fickleness but when you are building many, the last thing you want is to be stopped every fourth machine, swapping out memory and customising bios settings, what you need is the minimum amount of fuss and the fewest problems.
We all like the latest/fastest best performing but that often comes at a price and not just in monertary terms, newly released boards can often be very fickle indeed until there second or third release with umpteen bios upgrades, there is a lot to be said for going with a motherboard at the end of it's production run.
Thats not to say I do!! I'm just as big a sucker as all the rest of you. lolol
Martin
Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
when you are building one machine you can put up with the motherboards fickleness but when you are building many, the last thing you want is to be stopped every fourth machine, swapping out memory and customising bios settings, what you need is the minimum amount of fuss and the fewest problems.
We all like the latest/fastest best performing but that often comes at a price and not just in monertary terms, newly released boards can often be very fickle indeed until there second or third release with umpteen bios upgrades, there is a lot to be said for going with a motherboard at the end of it's production run.
Thats not to say I do!! I'm just as big a sucker as all the rest of you. lolol
Martin
Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
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