First post, by douglar
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This was the first motherboard that I started working with when I dug my box of 1990 computer stuff out of storage. Had good CPU coverage, WB support, ps/2 mouse, 3.3v power for the ISA slots through the supplemental power plug. I was lucky enough to have a power supply with the right connector on it. Great board other than it has the phoenix bios bug that causes the firmware to crash if you configure a drive over 2 GB.
Anyway, one day last fall it stopped booting. Power runs but there are no beeps. Diagnostic card just shows "-- --" when in ISA or PCI
I tried resetting the bios, 3.3v or 5.0v CPUs, memory or no memory, cards or no cards.
Should I start replacing the surface mount capacitors as the next step?