Hi there,
a few days ago I looked through my stock of retired hardware and I stumbled over my beloved ECS L7S7A2 though it's more a hate-love between us.
Since when I bought it back in the days it didn't seem that we were ment for each other.
Trying to run it with an XP 2400+ T-Bred from the start I wasn't able to get the rig running anywhere near stable even at stock speeds.
After trying troubleshooting and nearly loosing sanity I realized that voltages across the board ( lol ) were low.
Sitting in BIOS the voltages looked something like ( if I remember right) 11,5V (12V-rail), 4,5V (5V-rail) and 2,9V (3,3V-rail).
Trying different PSUs didn't bring any better results so I RMA'd the board... Four times... Always the same...
Since no one else seemed to have this experience I blamed it on a bad batch of boards and quite fed up I switched over to an Asus A7N8 Deluxe and stayed with it for some time.
The L7S7A2 went into a dark corner and almost was forgotten about until recently.
Despite the hard time it gave me I loved the board. Mostly because of the great community I was part of at that time being able to mod the sh$$ out of the BIOS using a great tool for improving performance or having features enabled. Never had the chance to really test performance though... :D
But nevertheless I always loved the onboard-sound even though it had quite bad critics.
Since I have lying around all it takes to build a retro-system it tickles under my skin and I'd love to get this board up and running but my brain is giving me a hard time.
Apart from soldering an extension cable directly to the board and using that plug for contact with the PSU does anyone know of a grease or something alike that can be used to improve contact?