fyo, Re: <No, quite the contrary. Most of the problems seem to be with latter revision boards, using old (non-XP) processors.>
You are correct, however, in that it is the 56 Ohm ZP boards that MrAthlon seems to be talking about, but his testing is of a set of failed boards, the vast majority of which are Rev 6( 24 of the 27 total are Rev 6 ) with the Athlon 1400MHz cpu predominantly mentioned.
I based my statement, in part, on
forum.ocworkbench.com
ECS has conducted extensive re-testing of the K7S5A and has held discussions with AMD to investigate the claim that there is a problem with the ZP setting on the K7S5A. ECS tested the K7S5A, as it tests all motherboard models, with a wide range of industry-accepted benchmark tests, including Memtest (not Memtest86) and Winstone 2001, that are used by all tier one motherboard manufacturers. As none of these reputable tests identified any such problem, ECS and AMD are therefore of the view that the alleged problem does not exist. However, we do believe there could possibly be a utility problem with the Memtest86 program.
It should be noted that AMD issued a Technical Note on 30th August, stating that the ZP setting for its XP series of processors should be 56.0 ohms. Since this bulletin was issued, ECS has complied with the guideline to ensure that the ZP setting on the K7S5A is fixed at around 56 ohms, otherwise the XP processors do not work. There is no problem with Athlon processors.
The K7S5A has passed AMD?s stringent testing and appears on AMD?s list of recommended motherboards that are compatible with the full series of AMD XP processors.
I've not been able to find the latest shipping revision number of the K7S5A.
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