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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 1:31 pm
by Radix
It seems like im in big trouble with using this motherboard and chipset. Cant get the pulsar to use it's own IRQ...it shares either irq with graphic card or ethernet or usb host controller..
What do i have to do? change motherboard?
pls respond either here or my mail
radix@trance.nu or icqnr 146142121
need help real bad
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 3:43 pm
by subhuman
You can't assign IRQs on that board if I remember correctly, part of the reasons it's so cheap...
You'll probably want to physically switch PCI slots.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 10:33 pm
by Eurocide
K7S5A still works rock solid here with Pulsar I in PCI slot 2 and Pulsar SRB I in slot 3.
Although the SRB shares its IRQ with the USB there are no problems in performance and sound.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:40 am
by subhuman
<i>Although the SRB shares its IRQ with the USB there are no problems in performance and sound.</i>
This is important - if everything works with IRQ sharing (and it does, depending on your board, the device you share with, etc), no need to worry about it! Get on with the music then..
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 3:55 pm
by Radix
well. i get these crackling soundas when using wavs and softsynths. and it really works like shit... ub think the card be busted somehow?
i bought it 4 months old from a music-shop
and i have had problems with it from day one.
the retailers for pulsar here in sweden says that the card should not sound like it does.
but if it works for other ppl so i guess the card is busted
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 8:29 am
by subhuman
I really doubt the card is 'busted.' You have one of those tricky motherboards that takes a good deal of tweaking to get running smoothly... I can't be of more help, since I don't own that board, but maybe other ECS board owners can share info, take notice especially of the slot numbers to use, already posted here.
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:23 am
by nor17
There is currently a new bios available, with PCI/IRQ settings for ECS K7S5A at
http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ul ... forum&f=27
Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 11:27 am
by Immanuel
I found this, once I owned a k7s5a ->
http://www.808.dk/pics/k7s5a_resource.gif I had those crackles too. I sold me k7s5a and bought an Asus tusl2-c and a celatin 1000MHz, that goes to 1333 no problem with the boxed cooler. No more crackles.
Immanuel
