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Here is a good puzzler for ya! FIC AD11 involved?

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SpHeRe31459

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Hi,

let me start with the rundown on my system components:

Duron 600 O/C 933Mhz pre-tested by Outside Loop Computers
FIC AD11 rev. 1.2 BIOS ABA45
2 sticks of Crucial 128MB PC2100
WD 20GB 7,200 RPM ATA/66 Hard Drive
Visiontek GeForce 2 GTS, now an MSI GeForce 3 Ti200 Det 21.83
SB Live! Value
Creative Labs branded Conexant HCF V.90 PCI Modem
Linksys LNE-100TX ver. 4.1
Win98SE, etc.

Well it seems that when I cold boot the computer will get past the BIOS screen and then just sit there with a black screen and a little blinking cursor up top on the left hand side. I simply press reset and everything works OK. Besides that the computer has been rock solid. This used to be more like 20% of the time, now it is 75% of the time or so!

I have tried just about everything you can think of. I have stripped the system down to only the video card is in the AGP slot, swapped out cards, replaced the power supply to a better rated 300watt model (Antec PP303X (from my Classic Athlon 600 days (160watts 3.3v and 5v rails combined) to a Sparkle FSP300-60BTV (200 watts 3.3v and 5v rails combined) this did not cure it. I have played around with an IBM 60GXP and a T-Bird 1.4Ghz CPU from my dad's computer but none of the components did it either. I have reflashed and cleared CMOS, etc. but all to no avail.

This has been creeping up on me, but I do not rememeber having this happen when I first got this combo, back when FIC was the only affordable DDR solution for the AMD760 chipset. I briefly pulled the AD11 with a Soyo K7ADA but it sucked and had issues of its own, so I did not really get a chance to troubleshoot it. You think this is a defective BIOS chip? / motherboard?

Thanks,

SpHeRe
 
I used to have the ad11, and it ran pretty well. Just because Outside Loop got your duron to run at 933 doesn't mean that it will do that on your mobo. Alot depends on memory and overall cooling. The fic runs a little warmer than some other boards. I would focus on your cpu and case cooling, and try setting the memory timings to the default settings.
 
Dude trust me I did all that my Crucial memory kicks ass and I had it tweaked out to CAS2 and tight timings,etc. but put it back to conservative, and my Duron sure does work fine it only gets up to like 39º C
 
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