curse the ECS K7S5a

[tim]

About 5 months ago I posted and learned from this community about cheap Taiwanese capacitors on mobos. Now it's official: all seven of my ECS K7S5a mobos have died, all of the same disease. Just thought I'd let ya'll know. I still have two more, but they are in cases, mounted vertically. The others were horizontal. All are on 24/7. The two in cases occasionally run windows for network games, but linux the rest of the time. I'm pricing replacement mobos.

btw, don't buy any used K7S5a's!

[Supp]

Don't buy K7S6 either - all 3 I had died in same week...just "plop" and never woke up again
And one took my 2.5+ CPU with it. Pity...

[IronBits]

sucks0rs!!!

[Hinton]

Asrock is IMHO the brand to use for cheap MBs. The company is actually a part of Asus, so it's not crap at all, just based of cheaper chipsets (like SIS etc.).

Also, you'll get a video of a hot chick showing you how to assemble a PC with each motherboard

[IronBits]

[Mustard]

I bought a total of 11 of them, 2 have died. All are mounted vertically. So I can't say that I've had any worse luck with the ECS K7S series than any other. I bought two Shuttles for instance, one is still running, one crapped out. I've bought 3 Asus, and 3 are still running.I've had two gigabyte board fail, and bought 12 of them. All have been used as 24x7 crunchers.