Re: FIC AU31 No longer posting



hoping not to have fried the southbridge but its definitely possible.

lots of spare ram but only the one cpu. but in theory it should give the no ram and no cpu beeps if its getting to that point.

pulling the voltage from the socket seems to be fairly common on a lot of diagnostic youtube channels. necroware frequently will place a small wire in to the right pin point to confirm a voltage or frequency for the cpu just like i did. infact thats where i got the idea from.

i do have one of those...

Re: FIC AU31 No longer posting

[url]https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-au31-l[/url] is the board in question if its any helpRe: FIC AU31 No longer posting<br />...f its any helpRe: FIC AU31 No longer posting

[url]https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-au31-l[/url] is the board in question if its any help

I have an FIC AU31 i'm hoping to resurect to be a win98SE retro pc. has a athlon xp 3200+ cpu.
it had bad capacitors on it causing reboots (or so i thought), replaced the capacitors 4 of them had opened up. we didn't do a very clean job. but it worked and the system seemed stable. during this testing though i had a pci card that was up slightly and without thinking i pushed it down and
the system hung. i tried rebooting and wouldn't get any post beeps after that. ive since upgraded my solidering/desolidering station and cleanly mounted the capacitors nicely hoping that it was just...

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Hi doing the obligatory new here post to gain access. found my way here trying to fix an old socket 462 motherboard!