Author Topic: Anyone useing the SIS 735 Chipset? (Read 782 times)

vatiAH · « **on:** November 24, 2001, 07:37:00 AM »

Hi guy,

Anyone have any practical experince with this chipset on any motherboard?

Vati

aztec · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2001, 11:50:00 AM »

Yup, using it in an ECS K7S5A, practical experience?.... dunno not much of a techie, what's on your mind Vati?

vatiAH · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2001, 01:41:00 PM »

how does that board work ? One of my venders is pushing that board and I was looking for feed back on stability and if there are any known issues with that chip set

vati

Hajo · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2001, 02:11:00 PM »

Vati!

LOL ya coulda axed me. SIS is silicon systems.....they made motherboard down graphics processors for Hewlitt Packard. In my experience......they weren't very good at that.....so I'd be leary of anything to do with that chipset.

Hajo

vatiAH · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2001, 04:29:00 PM »

Hajo,

SIS is known for making entry level Chipsets and ECS is known for making OEM motherboards. Everything I have read as far as reviews, go says that the ECS K7S5A motherboard is a solid performer. I'm looking for feed back from users to see if this hold true.

Vati

weazel · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2001, 09:07:00 PM »

It's a real son of a squeak to configure.

The K7S5A <Rev 4> is prone to memory errors due to a resistor change for the new AMD XP processors.

If you can find an earlier version <1-3> it's pretty stable with earlier Athlon chips.

It's a pretty good performer with Win98, but I wouldn't buy one if you use W2K or XP, I spent all of today trying to load XP and never got past the second reboot.

I'm glad XP was a freebie or I would really be pissed, its a pile of Microsloth toejam, I wouldn't wish it on my ex-wife.

Lephturn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 26, 2001, 07:15:00 AM »

Weazel, it sounds like you are blaming XP for some hardware problems. Although XP could use a little maturing, it's a very good and stable OS right from release. If you are having problems with it, I guarantee it's a hardware problem. XP works great, as does Win2k, but it doesn't put up with bad hardware like Win9x will. With 9x, if something is failing, the OS runs along fine and you just get crashes, data corruption, and general problems. In NT/2k/XP, if hardware is failing it will prevent some of the problems and data corruption, but the OS likely won't work.

If you describe your system, what you are trying to do, and what problems you are having, I may be able to help. In my experience XP installs and runs great, and if anything it's the easiest and smoothest install MS has built yet. If you are having big problems it's not likely the OS... something else is wrong.

bigUC · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2001, 09:26:00 AM »

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Originally posted by vatiAH:
Hajo,

SIS is known for making entry level Chipsets and ECS is known for making OEM motherboards. Everything I have read as far as reviews, go says that the ECS K7S5A motherboard is a solid performer. I'm looking for feed back from users to see if this hold true.

Vati

It has issues with faster Athlons (1-1,4 gig) , but prolly not the new palominos (XP). Just built a system based on the ECS MB (sis 735) w. an athlon 1.4 for a friend, and got a lot of memory problems (Memtest86) (tried both SDR and DDR). Lots of bluescreens and boot problems.
For the whole story check : OC workbench bbs

Prolly have to solder a couple of resistors on my friends MB to get it to work properly :-( I would avoid this board.

Update: Resistors soldered on and board rock stable - Not a job I'll do again, tough...

[ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: bigUC ]

aztec · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2001, 12:09:00 PM »

I'm using this board and it's running stable with one exception. During boot up I get the message: While intializing device ConfigMG windows protection error. You must restart your computer.

I then have to hit the reset button and during the reboot it takes me to the menu page where I select boot normally, and off we go. It only does this when the computer is stone cold. A simple restart or If I boot again rather soon after shutting down I dont get this. Does anyone have any insight to this problem?

Edited for stupid spelling and other stupid stuff

[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: aztec ]

aztec · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2001, 07:12:00 AM »

<punt>

bloom25 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 04, 2001, 04:48:00 PM »

I haven't used this board, but if you guys have to solder resistors onto the board to make it stable I'd be RMAing them as defective. That indicates to me that ECS didn't do their homework correctly when implementing the board design.

Actually I have attempted to mess with a Tbird 1.2 Ghz system using this exact board that someone else put together. They never got it to run at all and brought it to me and I was able to determine the board itself was defective. They got it working after the new board arrived, but I don't really know if it was stable or not...