First post, by Nemo1985
Hello, I received recently this motherboard, with cpu and ram. The first thing I did was to put the socketed bios on my eeprom burner to update to the latest bios, the original eeprom gave me an error at 87%. Well I used another one (the original eeprom is an AT49F002NT, the one I used is the winbond W29EE011-90).
I went to fire the motherboard and... nothing, the cpu fan spins but nothing else, no beeps, no video signal.
The debug card shows the infamous ---- code, which usually means something is very wrong.
I changed the battery to a new one, I tried different cpus and ram memory modules, I cleaned the contact with IPA, still nothing.
The seller on the auction showed some screens of the bios, but weird enough the cpu was recognized as P2 350 mhz, while the label on it says it is a 400 mhz. That lead me think they were faked but also the bios version of the bios is the same of the one was burned on the eeprom.
Despite of having black screen I noticed the cpu gets warm.
I have 2 main candidates as culprits: slot 1 even if watching the pins everything seems in order, eeprom socket.
Any advice about how can I troubleshoot the problem?
Thanks