ECS K7S5A "original" problem- does anyone recall

Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I have one of the original K7S5A boards on the brown pcb and it never would hold its settings. I changed the battery several times and that didn't do any good. I remeber hearing something about this as there was a bad bunch or something. But what I need to know, is if anyone recalls exactly what the problem was. was it just bad EPROM's or something else. I need to do something with this one as I would like to put it in service if I can or scavenge it for parts that I need for other uses.

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  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Uh... try a new BIOS chip maybe? I heard (I think it was from Leo, but it may have been you... I can't remember now :rolleyes: ) that www.badflash.com is good...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I had an original K7S5a, brown PCB, second board revision. Sometimes lost its settings. I replaced chip and battery, never solved it. I ended up figuring it had something to do with the way the board saved settings, or the way it supplied cell-battery power to the chip. Sometimes it flaked...

    In either regard, I never did fix it, still love the board though.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Thrax,

    Than you! That was It. It was bad pcb where there was excessive signal loss and/or cross talk between the traces on some boards. Just a major fubared run of boards.

    Thanks again. ;)
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