ECS is a low budget board. It is the first board I would choose
if my goal was to build a computer at the lowest possible cost.

It is also the last mb I would choose for a video workstation.


"Craig Busch" <clbusch@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Nobody_of_Consequence wrote:
your range.
Im over 'budget' PCs anyway, ive had several over the past 5 years. To me,
a computer that is flakey is not a computer at all, its a piece of crap and
I dont care how fast it can blow its stack. My method would be to buy a
solid base, and maybe wait unitl you can afford it before going for the big
ass hard disk or graphics card.

"Chimera" <nospam@thanks.com> wrote in message
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I would agree that with ECS you can built a very budget PC, but who said
anything about flakey?
I have two PC's built on ECS motherboards, I never have any flaky
performance.
Rock Solid Stable. So far about the most stable of the last 15 PC's I had
built and owned, but I would attribute that to using Win XP, not the
motherboard.
Most PC problems anyway are mismatched components, IRQ conflicts, improper
bios settings, add in cards in the wrong slot etc.
I have never had any problem with an actual motherboard itself, maybe I am
just lucky.


AnthonyR

I used an ECS pro and aside from the same occasional loss of cmos
settings others have mentioned I've had zero problems with it.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:49:18 -0700, "Nobody_of_Consequence"
<none314@hotmail.com> wrote:

Can you please post the Taiwan site web adress (URL) and the filename for
the bios update.

thanks in advance

sam

"AnthonyR" <Replyongrouponly@becauseoflame.spammers.com> wrote in message
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Hi Sam,
Sure, it is www.ecs.com.tw

and http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/bios_m.htm
for choosing the motherboard, the exact bios that worked for me was
the latest one, request byTSD version(tech support dept)
version date 02/10/29
it is the top on the list:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/k7s5a.htm

Also that was for an older board I had, the second board I ordered never had
this problem so I never had to bother. I believe it came with the latest
version.

Good Luck,
AnthonyR.


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