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Do you have the motherboard manual? Check (and double-check) that you have
connected the front panel items to the correct places, and in the correct
orientation. Very often they can be hooked up backwards, off one pin left
or right, etc. And, of course, unless they are all in the correct locations
and orientations they may not do what you would expect them to dol. (In
your case, only the reset switch hookup is clearly suspect...but while you
are in there, check them all.)
John
At 10:36 PM 2/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Grab your Phillips, it's...
>The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
>
>
>This is really a weird one. Thanks to the help from John and the Chief, I
>decided on the Athlon and got a SD-11 motherboard for the slot a. So far
>so good.
>
>But when I boot, the machine just sits there. The hard disk spins up and
>everything appears to be ready to boot but I get no video UNTIL I press
>reset! Then the &^#*%^&$ thing works like a charm.
>
>I checked the site and applied the latest ROM patch, so I know that the
>bios is ok.
>
>Any ideas Listers?
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John M. Goodman, Ph.D., author of "Peter Norton's Inside the PC," Seventh
Edition (Sams 1997, ISBN 0-672-31041-4), and Eighth Edition (Sams 1999,
ISBN 0-672-31532-7).
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