First post, by iulianv
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I have a FordLian/RedFox TX-5IB2 board that I was planning to base some Win95 system on these days, but after putting everything together I discovered that it wouldn't POST.
The board had been previously (and successfully) tested with a K6-2/333 CPU, so I took the board out and tried that CPU again (I was initially planning a K6-2/400=6*66 for the system), and it POSTed.
Put everything back into the case again, and back to no-POST I was 🙁 . After that there came a lot of times when I thought I fixed it (moved the video card to another PCI slot, removed a plastic shard from one of the DIMM slots, changed the video card, changed the RAM), and each time it would POST first and then remain dead after some other operation (like fastening the cooler or adding RAM).
I couldn't determine an "environmental factor" that would remain constant over the no-POST situations (like CPU, RAM, video card type or placement, board being mounted in the case or not, cooler being fastened or not), and when it POSTs it seems to run fine (doesn't hang).
At the moment I can only think of capacitors - not bulged but maybe dried out - and of course I'm open to suggestions... I'd really like to be able to use that board (mostly due to its support for K6-2 CPUs).
Photo of the board here: https://sites.google.com/site/iulianvshw/mb/t … _5ib2-front.jpg
And manual here: http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/fordlian/tx-5ib2.pdf