Which athlon/duron cpu is compatible with PCChips M811LU m..

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I'm building my first pc. I bought a PCChips M811LU motherboard and a
duron 1.8 cpu. put in 256mb of pqi pc2100 ram.
Well, the system won't post or boot at all. No beeps nothing. The
psu fan runs, the cpu fan runs, the hard drive comes on, the cd tray
opens & closes, but the system won't boot at all. Video screen stays
blank. I've checked and rechecked all connections...disconnected all
of them & reconnected again...connected only the bare essentials needed
to boot...still nothing.
I've checked around online and finally read that this board needs to
have the bios "flashed" in order to work with the duron 1.8 and the way
to do that is to install a compatible cpu, boot the system and then
flash (update?) the bios. I do not have any other duron or athlon cpus
since this is my first experience with amd processors. Before I get
another cpu...I'd like to know which ones are compatible with this
board right off the bat...which cpu this board will recognize WITHOUT
my having to flash the bios first.
Don't laugh...too hard, anyway. I'm a 48 year old mom who is self
taught on computers and finds them fascinating and just a joy to play
with. So a little help and much patience and indulgence will be greatly
appreciated. I started by taking apart a dinosaur 486 putting it back
together (it still worked!) then putting together a small system with
a pentium 133 then moved up to a 166 and now I'm ready to build a
better one.
and also...I did not work on carpet when I installed the motherboard &
cpu, and I wore an esd wrist strap at all times. There is no burning
smell when the power is on and the fans are running.

Thank you all in advance.


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Sonrisa