I believe your problem is more than likely your power supply. For the AMD
Duron chips you need a solid 300 watt power supply to power up the chip and
board.
I know this because I have already been there and done that. I suggest you
try a quality power supply rated at 300 watts and see if that cures your
ills.
Also I strongly suggest you add an additional case fan for exhaust purposes
because this chip will generate a lot of heat.

Barry Clark
MSCE/CCNA
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Knight" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] No BIOS / Boot...


> 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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