Hope somebody can help... this is driving me crazy!
Purchased an FIC AZ11 m/board and Duron 800 chip new as the foundation of a new system build. Also purchased a new case / power supply, RAM chip, and video card. Other parts <floppy, CD ROM, hard drive> were working spares I had laying around.
Assembled system <I have assembled many Pentium systems prior to this> and was ready to go. Powered up fine <all accessories, fans, h/drive, CDROM> but it appears no signal is being sent to the monitor. So, I re-check all the connections and try again. Still, nothing but a black screen <monitor is fine>.
I re-checked all the jumpers, re-installed the CPU, tried booting without various components <h/drive, floppy, CD>, tried different video cards, RAM, hard drives, etc., but there is still no signal being sent. To make it more difficult to diagnose this m/board apparently uses some "spoken word" program to diagnose BIOS errors which requires an add-on card which I don't care to use or buy.
I don't have another AMD based board to test the chip, either. Only hint: if I hit the reset button I at least get a temporary flash or "line" in the monitor for a brief second..... anybody have any ideas before I send this thing back?
Any help would be MUCH appreciated......
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