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FIC VA-503+ motherboard w award bios hangs at verifying dmi pool data

I have a brand new FIC VA-503+ motherboard with latest edition number 1.2a  E-O037 and an AMD K6II 500 Mghz processor.  The system has an Award BIOS. After several different attempts and adjustments the system continues to hang upon startup.  Memory check is ok with 4 simms (32 meg each), the system recognizes floppy disk, hard drives, and DVDrom/CD, but then proceeds to "verifying dmi pool data" and freezes so that keyboard and alt/control/delete reboot is inactive.

I see many posts on the internet telling of similar problems with Award BIOS.  The most troubling implies that the BIOS chip needs to be replaced.  If that is the case I will go back to Directron.com where this was purchased and get a refund.

I am interested in any workable solutions presented with the exception of replacing the chip.
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rrnelson,

I have deleted and refunded the other 8 duplicate questions.  How would you like to handle the 2 that have posts from experts in them.

Thank you
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Sounds like a bad processor to me.
I have had similar problems with older stuff.
Since the K6II is not manufactured any longer, many pulls and old stock show up. I have a K6II-333 that does everything right, but will not run anything but dos
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That's an odd one scott, I'd like to play with around with one like that, since I don't quite believe it. Will it run doom or anything else that uses a 32bit dos extender?

In this case though I don't think the CPU can be blamed just yet.

Waiting for a response from you rrrnelson, I have some more suggestions if my previous ones don't get you anywhere.

regards,

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Yeah PB, That was my thought :-)   the old ios error.
Yeah but people still try to run 95 on K6-IIs and later.  I find it funny that AMD processors do not work as it was explained to me that they did not exist at the time 95 was written.  Well neither did Pentium IIIs but I can load it on to see if it works and it does, well not really ;-) because Windows 95 would never support all of my hardware.  At least not all at once in the same computer.  HAHAHAHA
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Sorry about the delayed response.  I am leaving on an out of country trip today and have not had time to work on this again.  There is a good chance I will be returning this to the vendor since I have only had it a few days and it may very well be the motherboard/bios, etc.    I will be able to update everyone around Oct. 19th or so.

Sorry for this.
Hopefully thyey will exchange it for you.  That is a nice board as I recall it supported plug and play really well.  I mean that seriously as certain devices I like to run, ran without issue on my 503+.  I didn't even have to disable USB which I had had to on many socket 7 Motherboards to get all PCI slots to work.  Have a good trip.
I discovered the flaw in my 333 K6II while trying to run Linux. If anything will uncover flaws in hardware, try a good Linux rescue disk.
Computer 101.  Please award 25 points to Road Warrior.   I have returned the computer since it was under warranty and I was unable to resolve the problem with any suggestions that the vendor provided.
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