AMD 1800+ ECS k7s5a

**Un4GivN1** · 20th September 2002

Hey all, a couple weeks ago I stupidly tried flashing the BIOS of this board. After that, only the CPU fan would turn, nothing else! So I cleared the CMOS by first removing the CMOS battery (as i thought this was how to do it). I then read to switch the jumpers, so I put the battery back in, reset the CMOS and booted it up. It reported 11.5 Ghz which is normal on a fresh board. But then after it reported the HDD and CDRW it beeped twice and reported a CMOS memory error (I believe).

Press F1 to enter setup.
Press F2 to load default settings.

If I chose F2 it would boot up but give me the same error message every time I would restart. When the computer got to windows it had to load most motherboard componants again, modem, on-board audio, etc.

So once I've installed these things again, I can reboot, go into BIOS and change the FSB to 133/133. BUT, once every 2 days it seems, it does the same thing and I have to go through the process over again! I have figured out that all I have to do is go into the BIOS and choose Load optimal settings and it will boot without having to reinstall the BIOS componants.

My question is...what is causing it to do this and is there a way to prevent it completely?

Thanks,

Un4GivN

**kuruptnati** · 20th September 2002

Its probably your battery. I have that exact same setup to tell you the truth. A ECS K7s5a, 1800+ and a G3.

**Un4GivN1** · 21st September 2002

So should I just buy a new battery?

**kuruptnati** · 21st September 2002

Not sure, depends. Thats what it sounds like. But dont yell when it turns out to be something different

**$m0ker** · 21st September 2002

make sure the battery has a good contact with both terminals. it sounds like when you took it out you may have have bent one and its making intermitant contact.

best place for your motherboard http://pub65.ezboard.com/bk7s5amotherboardforum

**Un4GivN1** · 22nd September 2002

Nice, thanks for the link smoker!

**$m0ker** · 23rd September 2002

no problem.

this really is a decent board for the money even tho it may seem that many people cant get it working correctly.

I have 3 of them cause Fry's always seems to have it on sale, like a k7s5a with xp1800 for $90 when the cheapest 1800 on pricewatch is $70. so I tend to overlook the boards minor shortcomings when I get them for $20-$25.

KeiserSose · 23rd September 2002

removing and replacing the battery will not help you if screwed up flashing the board. You need to flash it again

**TerryBolea** · 25th September 2002

sounds like you left the jumper setting on...

**$m0ker** · 25th September 2002

Stop posting clueless bullshit if you dont know what your talking about.

KeiserSose : screwing up a bios flash is not going to effect cmos memory retention!

TerryBolea: 90% of motherboards wont POST with the cmos jumper set to CLEAR, and even if this was one of the other 10% then dont you think the cmos would be reset EVERYTIME???

Seriosly, if you dont know what your talking about then dont offer stupid suggestions.

**station420** · 25th September 2002

geezz.. they're only trying to help.

KeiserSose · 26th September 2002

I stupidly tried flashing the BIOS of this board. After that, only the CPU fan would turn, nothing else!

hey dumbass what part of that don't you understand

**$m0ker** · 26th September 2002

that you should always clear the cmos after a bios flash.

the program that flashes the bios wont always clear the cmos, and the data held in the cmos wont always line up accurate with the new bios image.

if you had actually read his complete post you would have noticed that after he cleared the cmos the system booted properly. so why dont you explain to us "dumbass's" how the Fuck a bios image is going to cause cmos data retention problems?