Recently I had experience with a couple of ECS K7S5A-pro motherboards bought a few months apart, as part of a $79 2400+ Athlon XP bundle deal at Fry's.
One of the upgrades would've gone much more smoothly except that when I went to enter User Define heads/cylinders info the heads/cylinders/etc. settings would turn to zeroes as expected on that line yet I couldn't figure out how to move the cursor to the zeroes, it would tab over the zeroes to the LBA etc. settings to the right of the zeroes on that line and would let me change them. So near and yet so far. I checked the other motherboard and the behavior was the same.
Many years ago I recall having a similar problem, which was resolved by finding out that I needed to get to those zeroes by doing something special on the keyboard (yes I tried the arrow keys, page up/dn, + / -, tab, home, end,
etc.).
Does anyone have this motherboard and can set the user-defined heads/cylinders without problem (as in typing them in rather than hitting enter and letting it auto-fill them in by itself)?
I would have liked to have typed them in because the drive was coming from a motherboard that had been using heads/cylinders different than the ones the K7S5A-pro wanted to automatically select, and so the drive couldn't just be moved over and boot up XP Pro.
One of the upgrades would've gone much more smoothly except that when I went to enter User Define heads/cylinders info the heads/cylinders/etc. settings would turn to zeroes as expected on that line yet I couldn't figure out how to move the cursor to the zeroes, it would tab over the zeroes to the LBA etc. settings to the right of the zeroes on that line and would let me change them. So near and yet so far. I checked the other motherboard and the behavior was the same.
Many years ago I recall having a similar problem, which was resolved by finding out that I needed to get to those zeroes by doing something special on the keyboard (yes I tried the arrow keys, page up/dn, + / -, tab, home, end,
etc.).
Does anyone have this motherboard and can set the user-defined heads/cylinders without problem (as in typing them in rather than hitting enter and letting it auto-fill them in by itself)?
I would have liked to have typed them in because the drive was coming from a motherboard that had been using heads/cylinders different than the ones the K7S5A-pro wanted to automatically select, and so the drive couldn't just be moved over and boot up XP Pro.
