Motherboard compatibility test
ECS K7S5A




Motherboard specifications

CPU Single Socket A
AMD Athlon
Chipset SiS 735
Expansion slots 5 PCI
1 AGP
Storage I/O Onboard Ultra DMA 100/66/33 EIDE controller
Onboard AC'97 audio controller
Front side Bus 200/266 MHz


Test results

Tested configuration
CPU Single AMD Athlon XP 1500+
Front Side Bus 266 MHz
BIOS AMI version 02/10/01 Date: 10/28/2002
Memory 512 MB RAM
Storage System drive and CD-ROM drive on primary EIDE channel.
A/V drive on secondary EIDE channel.
Software Matrox X.tools build 5078 and Adobe Premiere Pro

Installed expansion cards
AGP Matrox Millennium P750
PCI 1
PCI 2 Matrox RT.X
PCI 3
PCI 4 Creative Sound Blaster Live!
PCI 5

Additional required software
We installed patches and drivers in the following order:
1 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Updates, and Driver Updates
2 SiS AGP VXD driver, version 1.16a Date: 06/02/2003

Comments
Using the onboard sound device will cause erratic behavior. Please use one of the
tested and validated sound cards instead.

Tested AGP display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*
Matrox Millennium P750 Version 1.04.03.005
Date: 07/31/2003
Yes Yes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Revision 5.12.2.252
Date: 02/28/2003
4


*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits



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The information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance; however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last updated October 27th, 2003.

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