retro games 100 wrote:I've had this board for a while now. I've never seen it POST. I've tried about 10-12 different sticks of RAM in either Bank 0, […]
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I've had this board for a while now. I've never seen it POST. I've tried about 10-12 different sticks of RAM in either Bank 0, or Banks 0 and 1. I think the jumpers are set OK. I used this webpage for the settings -
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FI … 86-VIP-IO2.html
The schematic above seems fairly accurate. However, one strange thing is that the VLB slots are "soldered out"/missing on my mobo.
When I switch on power, the 3 keyboard lights flash, and then that's it - no sign of life.
A couple of things to note: please look at the left edge of the middle 2 SIMM sockets. Can you see that weird looking wire running from one edge of the chip, down to the middle bottom edge of the chip? Also, there was a small button battery soldered on to the board. I was able to rip it off, including the metal "lugs"/legs attaching it to the mobo. (You can't just remove the battery unfortunately.) OK, so now I have no battery (but I am very confident it was dead anyway), but would this stop the mobo from POSTing? There is an external battery header pins on the mobo, and I might have an external battery gadget somewhere...is it worth finding it, to try and get the board to POST?
Thanks a lot for any comments.
just wanted to comment on this old topic because a guy gave me the same motherboard for free today because he said "it didnt work"
my version has the vlb slots, also near the isa slots on the left corner you are missing a chip, your socket is empty, also on top right corner on J2, you need to put 2 jumpers on 1 and 2 and 15 and 16 because your cpu is 5v, that information is on a website that has PDF of the actual fic manual
J2 is:
1 2 (jumpered)
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
13 14
15 16 (jumpered)
OK so mine did not post either. took out the voltage regulator addon board that goes connected on j2, tried a DX2 66mhz cpu, THEN INSERTED FPM RAM (i did not thest with EDO yet)..
did not post with a trident ISA card.
then brought a viper v330 pci card....did not post
then brought a geforce4 pci card....did not post
tried some spitfire pci card and did not post
then tried with a trident pci card, for god sake what doesnt work with a trident pci card....and DID NOT POST!
i was about to give up.....
then i noticed that it was not posting but the keyboard on boot was giving the 3 lights blick on power on..
then trying i got a trident VLB and it posted!
tried a cirrus logic VLB and it posted too!
then tried a Creative Ct6510 on the 3rd PCI slot ant it posted with that card.
then tried a SIS PCI card and it posted again.
seems the board is very picky on what vga card you have installed. and extremely picky if the PCI card goes down a little bit or up too much (how centered is to the pci socket) , it wont post either.
really nice mothrboard