Elite Group ECS K7S5A Review

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Elite Group ECS K7S5A
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electro mixer's Review of Elite Group ECS K7S5A Motherboard

22nd Mar 2005

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    5 stars
  • Time Motherboard Owned
    Over 1 Year
Good Points

Good value for the price. Stable workhorse.


Bad Points

Short life BIOS battery.


General Comments

Built this computer over three years ago, Elite Group ECS K7S5A, 256MB DDR ram, Western Digital HD, Nvidia Gforce 2 graphics.
This setup ran well for for me for a year and then I ran into some promblems, it started with installing and running programs, then errors while burning disks, finally boot up. At first I thought maybe a new malicious worm, so a reformate was in order, but it was met with little success.
After discussion with more adept computer friends, things were pointing in the direction of the HD or mainboard.
Not wanting to believe that only after a year of use my mainboard was fried, I forced the rusty gears in my head to start turning. Then the room got brighter as if a lightbulb had been turned on! Above what some poeple would call a block of dense iron wood ;)
I noticed that the more I rebooted the worst(or sooner) the errors became. This was most noticable during a reinstall of my operating system from Win 98 to ME back to 98, Windows 98 is a smaller OS and has fewer reboots during install compared to WIN ME. I also noticed that if the machine sat for a day or so it was less problematic (A battery due to it's chemical make up will gain a small amount of voltage if allowed to rest).
This lead to the conclusion that something was either heating up a circuit in the mainboard expanding a hairline crack or draining something like a BATTERY! So I had two choices to take 1)several pieces of papertowel sandwiched between the back of the mainboard and the case (to slightly stress the board to reconnect a hairline crack) to see if this made a difference in performance, if so a NEW mainboard would be in order. Or 2) replace the BIOS battery.
I decided on the latter, I ran down to my local electronics store bought a battery and put it in. All problems were solved and it's still running good two years later.

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