Re: ECS K7S5A - picture story

Latest update...

Success! Booted up to Windows...everything a-OK!

Another successful cap replacement saga for the record.

Gunther

Re: ECS K7S5A - picture story

Update...

Never ASS-u-me anything...or so the Murphy's law derivative proclaims.

The keyboard that *was* working fine before the cap replacement decided to take this opportunity to go tits up.

I replaced it with an old made-in-Thailand Dell with a bad spacebar, but everything else OK, and the keyboard problem is gone.

In the interim, I had ground down a soldering tip to give me a nice, pointy, usable working surface, and reheated the solder connections to make sure everything was nice and tight....

Re: ECS K7S5A - picture story

Thanks, fellas.

My keyboard was connected, but there is no recognition of its presence from the MoBo. I can't get to setup because I can't input anything from the keyboard!

Latest ECS-supplied BIOS is loaded. Had Cheepo-man's before, but went back to ECS to try to resolve the erratic post...it didn't help, so that's when I discovered this website and identified the bad caps.

Sounds like the keyboard *should* respond if everything's been done properly.
My solder joints are crappy! I'm getting a better...

Re: ECS K7S5A - picture story

Rainbow, thanks for that great post...you inspired me to try the capacitor switch on my K7S5A. I noticed from the photos that your initial post display shows "CMOS Settings Wrong, Keyboard Error, CMOS Mmory Size Wrong."

I'm getting the same display after my re-cap job. I'm wondering if you had the keyboard connected when this picture was snapped (mine is), and how you resolved the CMOS errors.

I've removed the battery, reset CMOS at JP4, replaced battery with new, and jumpered back to default CMOS settings with...