ECS PF1 865PE Gallery (2)

This mainboard is ECS PF1. It has dropped the previous single colour, boring design to a more vibrant and colourful design. The especially eye catching front panel connectors will definitely be something everyone has been looking forward for since you won't plug the wrong pins onto the wrong connectors.

With a 3 phase power design and colour coding, it makes this board stands out from its own range of boards. This board also incorporates 3COM's Gigabit Ethernet. There is also SATA using ICH5R and IEEE 1394 support. 6 channel audio via Cmedia 9739 Codec.


Top Right Corner of the mainboard. From here we can see 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. The yellow slot has some special unique features which we will discuss later (scroll down).	The Socket 478 and the North Bridge. ICS 952607EF is used for controlling the large range of FSB. (up to 350Mhz FSB selectable within BIOS). A 3 phase voltage design is used on board for utmost stability.

2 SATA ports on board.	Four 184-pin DIMM sockets. Supports 4 DIMM Single/Dual Channel DDR 400 memory.(Max. 4GB). Supports configurable ECC function

Clk generator : CY284040C	3COM 940 Gigabit Ethernet chipset

The tri colour Photon CPU Heatsink	VIA VT6307 supports 2 x IEEE 1394

A OS-con quality capacitor sits near right next to the yellow PCI slot. With the help of this capacitor, the slot can provide ultra signal quality for outstanding autio and video card performance	Top-Hat Flash is ECS's patented version of of Dual BIOS. The top hat flash is a handy external BIOS recovery that sits on top just like a hat. For example when you flashed a BIOS and the system can't boot, the top hat flash can be inserted on top of the existing soldered on BIOS (as shown below). Power up the machine and it should boot as per normal. Once it is in DOS prompt, remove the top hat flash and flash the on board bios with the correct BIOS code and reboot machine. Now you have a working board again.

Top Hat BIOS and Soldered on BIOS	Top Hat BIOS sitting on top of Soldered BIOS.