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What does this mean ?
Testing on my 486 VLB motherboard that will not post.
No video.

Previously it was working then I let it sit for a few weeks. Now it does not want to work.
PSU is good.
CPU is good.
Battery is good.
Video card is good.
Jumpers are set correctly.

Atrend 4GPV3 486 VESA Motherboard
http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb2/4gpv3.html
( A.K.A. VLB Galaxy 486V1 and MB-486-CONTAQ 012093 U4L2-0 )
( A.K.A. - Mecer B860 )
- BIOS ID string X0-0100-001117-00101111-060692-CTQ596-F
- 8-30 pin SIMM slots (1-128meg FPM DRAM)
- 2-32bit VESA Local Bus slots
- 8-16bit ISA slots
- 64-256k cache support in 8-28pin sockets + 1 TAG RAM sockets
- AMI/Award/MR Bios
- CONTAQ (German) 82C596 A Chipset
- Supports the following cpu's at 25/33/40/50/66MHz
INTEL 80486SX/80486DX/80486DX2, P24C, P24T
CYRIX CX486M6, CX486M7
AMD AM486DX/DX2
- Green PC Connector
- Manufactured by: Atrend Technology Co. Ltd. or VisionEx + CTL corp. USA 1993
Actually, This motherboard was branded by several USA companies including: Atrend, Mecer, and VisionEx.

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-06-06, 04:51:
What does this mean ? Testing on my 486 VLB motherboard that will not post. No video. […]
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What does this mean ?
Testing on my 486 VLB motherboard that will not post.
No video.

Previously it was working then I let it sit for a few weeks. Now it does not want to work.
PSU is good.
CPU is good.
Battery is good.
Video card is good.
Jumpers are set correctly.

Atrend 4GPV3 486 VESA Motherboard
http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb2/4gpv3.html
( A.K.A. VLB Galaxy 486V1 and MB-486-CONTAQ 012093 U4L2-0 )
( A.K.A. - Mecer B860 )
- BIOS ID string X0-0100-001117-00101111-060692-CTQ596-F
- 8-30 pin SIMM slots (1-128meg FPM DRAM)
- 2-32bit VESA Local Bus slots
- 8-16bit ISA slots
- 64-256k cache support in 8-28pin sockets + 1 TAG RAM sockets
- AMI/Award/MR Bios
- CONTAQ (German) 82C596 A Chipset
- Supports the following cpu's at 25/33/40/50/66MHz
INTEL 80486SX/80486DX/80486DX2, P24C, P24T
CYRIX CX486M6, CX486M7
AMD AM486DX/DX2
- Green PC Connector
- Manufactured by: Atrend Technology Co. Ltd. or VisionEx + CTL corp. USA 1993
Actually, This motherboard was branded by several USA companies including: Atrend, Mecer, and VisionEx.

Resurrecting an old post. My CTL version of same board recently died and could not get it to even partial post, similar story as it booted a few years ago but now is dead.
Stripped it down (for the cache chips) but did save the BIOS as it is from early 1994 where most were dated 1992 or 1993.
Did you ever get your board working ?

Here is my board and BIOS: Re: 80486 BIOS image collection

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun