AMD Socket A Mainboard.... Need advice!

Hello,

I have an AZZA AMD Socket A mainboard giving me fits. I need
some advice as to most prudent route to take for either repairing this
board, if bad, or replacing it. The board has been in use for 2 1/2
years
with no problems.
The board is intermittently hanging up at "verifying DMI Pool
Data"
area or not making it thru "POST"; ie no characteristic beep or screen
activity. "Sometimes" pressing soft boot button will
get it to boot on up and get past DMI Pool Data message.
I have swopped my DIMM modules; removed drive cabling and I
think
successfully cleared CMOS BIOS. Removing wafer battery should clear
BIOS?
Or do you have to short some pins?
Would it make economic sense to send board in to AZZA for repair
or
just get another Socket A board? It has an Athlon 900 mHz Thunderbird
processor. I have no experience replacing mainboards but it looks
pretty
straightforward. Setting one up firmware/software wise would seem to
be
biggest challenge.
I have no serious performance issues to consider. Just use it
for
web surfing and light graphics work.
Any help\suggestions from you folks would be appreciated.

I'm posting this msg on a "95 mHZ" machine...ha,

Ed
edthetermite.DeleteThis@yahoo.com

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:11:08 -0700, Ed DeLauter wrote:

 > Hello,
 >
 > I have an AZZA AMD Socket A mainboard giving me fits. I need
 > some advice as to most prudent route to take for either repairing this
 > board, if bad, or replacing it. The board has been in use for 2 1/2
 > years
 > with no problems.
 > The board is intermittently hanging up at "verifying DMI Pool
 > Data"
 > area or not making it thru "POST"; ie no characteristic beep or screen
 > activity. "Sometimes" pressing soft boot button will
 > get it to boot on up and get past DMI Pool Data message.
 > I have swopped my DIMM modules; removed drive cabling and I
 > think
 > successfully cleared CMOS BIOS. Removing wafer battery should clear
 > BIOS?
 > Or do you have to short some pins?

Normally you have to short pins.

 > Would it make economic sense to send board in to AZZA for repair

Nope. Probably bad caps. Not worth messing with imo.

 > or
 > just get another Socket A board? It has an Athlon 900 mHz Thunderbird
 > processor. I have no experience replacing mainboards but it looks
 > pretty
 > straightforward. Setting one up firmware/software wise would seem to
 > be
 > biggest challenge.
 > I have no serious performance issues to consider. Just use it
 > for
 > web surfing and light graphics work.
 > Any help\suggestions from you folks would be appreciated.
 >
You can get a new (older model) board that would use your current
components real cheap. However, the new models aren't that high, but you'd
have to replace the ram too.

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