Asus A7S333 (SiS 745)

MSX · Feb 17, 2003, 03:42 PM

I bought this motherboard not too long ago... I was a bit wary of via as I seemed to pick up every troubled board they had... So avoiding them sounded good. So I figured I'd go with the A7S333...
The SIS 745 chipset sounded good. An integrated BUS plus it didint have any features really I didint want on the motherboard. Sounded stable, which is what I was looking for being my last few motherboards were about as stable as escaped psycopaths.

Though I'm still having major problems involving random re-boots, crashes and just general crap. So I wondered what it could be... I replaced a few components including my powersupply hoping the reboots would stop... Then I noticed something... My case was mildly electrified. So I'm really wondering now why the heck that would be happening , my guess is my computer is not properly grounded but it son a cement floor so...

Any ideas why my MB keeps crashing and doing this? Better yet. How to fix the darn thing?

MSX

kbleft · Feb 17, 2003, 04:33 PM

I would check how your motherboard is mounted. It sounds like your case is storing a bit of a charge. The mobo is supposed to be mounted on brass standoffs so that this doesn't happen. Perhaps you missed one or lost a screw below the mobo?

MSX · Feb 17, 2003, 08:09 PM

Nope... I just checked it... Its a small charge, but there so I would guess it might be related to my random reboots but I'm really not sure.

Madgoat1979 · Feb 17, 2003, 08:16 PM

sis chipsets have a chipset heatsink on the integrated BUS chip.

this heatsink doesnt do "SHIZZA"... Its mounted with double sided tape!!!

take the heatsink off, and rub all the gunk off... then apply some thermal grease... (same stuff you would use on your proc)...

then super glue it back on by putting some glue on each of the fur corners. (make sure to get a good amount of grease on there... )

I have a sis 735, I did this because of the same problem.... Now I am able to overclock easy and have pure system wide stability....

Trust me... this is a problem with most of the SIS chipsets...

anyway, Best of luck.

Peace,
MadGoat