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PC Booting Problem (HELP!)

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Moz

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I built this system just over a year ago. Worked great up till this latest
upgrade.
System was Abit BE6 (original), Intel PIII 450 (Slot 1, Retail), IBM 22GXP,
256MB RAM.

Today I bought a retail PIII 850 (100FSB) SECC2, and first flashed the BE6
with the latest update from Abit which supports the 850. Then simply swapped
the CPUs out. Now the PC powers up but there is absolutely no synch to the
monitor. I am stumped at what to do here short of getting a new motherboard.
I tried reseating all components, swapping RAM around, discharged (reset)
the CMOS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 
It sounds like possibly a bad bios flash. Does it do the same thing with the old cpu installed? If it does, then I think the flash was unsuccessful.
 
Moz, I had the same type problem on a BM6. What it turned out to be was a bad BIOS chip. I had my parents grab one for me (ABIT in CA) and it is working now. Seems to be a rare but common problem with ABIT boards.
 
The last time I had something similar it was my VGA-card that was faulty. Are you positive about your VGA/Monitor?

A friend of mine once resetted his cmos and after that it used it's pci-vga, instead of his AGP-card. Stupid thing was his second monitor was turned off...
 
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