I bought the SiS K7S5A mboard & 850 Duron to replace my TMC mboard (2mg Cache on board) & K6-III 450, back in Nov2001 as a cheap but good upgrade from what I had.
The first problem I encountered was with my HDrive, is that it isn't being detected when I start up the computer, forcing me to go in to the BIOS and set it myself everytime. This is a real pain :( leading me to think I must need a BIOS update. My current version is: 07.00T, Date: 02/04/2001 - If anyone could tell me where I can get an update, it would be much appreciatated.
The second problem I've encountered is when I plugged my Encore Dxr3 DVD Decorder in and start the machine up. This only gets as far the memory being counted and seems to just hang, but only with the card in. After much dragging the card in and out of every free PCI slot and reading the manual over and over - I finally check the memory. I had 2 128 SDRAM Modules, one running at 100 and the other running at 133. I swapped them around but this didn't change anything. So I had a spear 64 Mb Module 133 and changed it with the 128 Mb 100 then started up. This fixed the problem.
Changing the memory module from 100 to 133 gave the system a noticeable speed increase in XP. But after reading a few articles on the net about this board being the bees knee, I'd have to say that my last mboard with VIA chipset blow this one's socks off for startup time. :zzz:
- But maybe this will be fixed with a BIOS update.
The first problem I encountered was with my HDrive, is that it isn't being detected when I start up the computer, forcing me to go in to the BIOS and set it myself everytime. This is a real pain :( leading me to think I must need a BIOS update. My current version is: 07.00T, Date: 02/04/2001 - If anyone could tell me where I can get an update, it would be much appreciatated.
The second problem I've encountered is when I plugged my Encore Dxr3 DVD Decorder in and start the machine up. This only gets as far the memory being counted and seems to just hang, but only with the card in. After much dragging the card in and out of every free PCI slot and reading the manual over and over - I finally check the memory. I had 2 128 SDRAM Modules, one running at 100 and the other running at 133. I swapped them around but this didn't change anything. So I had a spear 64 Mb Module 133 and changed it with the 128 Mb 100 then started up. This fixed the problem.
Changing the memory module from 100 to 133 gave the system a noticeable speed increase in XP. But after reading a few articles on the net about this board being the bees knee, I'd have to say that my last mboard with VIA chipset blow this one's socks off for startup time. :zzz:
- But maybe this will be fixed with a BIOS update.
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