Had the same board, same probs. Everything worked like it was supposed to after flashing the bios to hacked cheepo bios @ http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5abios/cheepobios.htm if you dont want to flash maybe the guides there can help you @ http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/