I have the same problem on my 1995 Rodeo. The dashboard lights won't light even though warning lights do. Also the "headlamps on" warning sound won't sound. Changed fuse, it blows within a minute of turning the lights on. Three times. Illumination knob is properly set. Oddly, the third time the fuse blew it threw all my radio presets and the clock off, I had to reset all the stations and the clock which work fine now.
It sounds like there's a short in the wiring and I assume dashboard light to mean the lights for your gauges and not the lights for your a/c, fan, heat. You'll have to remove your dash board to get at your gauges and then you'll have to test each wire with a voltmeter for resistance to see which is shorted... I've seen wires that for some reason, will fuse together and short out
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