I don't know if anyone else has run into/done this, but I bought an Asus A7M266-D yesterday and 2 Athlon XP 2200's becuase the place I bought the board at was out of MP's (Nano had 1 1.2 MP and the others they had were $150 or so a processor) and I was told by someone at the store that sometimes you can drop XP's in and they will be read as MP's, so going for a cheaper dual system and potentially less stable I bought this stuff, got home and dropped a CPU in and it read fine as a single, but not as an MP, and then dropped the second in and same result, not read by the BIOS as an MP. So i googled. Come to find out the earlier versions of the XP, I think before 1800, worked as MP's on dual boards becuase there is a bridge on the L5 cache that is open and on the newer XP's this is closed. Long story short, there are a bunch of articles out there on how to unlock the L5 cache and after about 6 hrs last night and 5 this morning I got the XP's to read as MP's using a Rear Window Defog Repair Kit, which people suggest in the articles and I overlooked. I am not a hardware geek so this was quite the accomplishment for me and of course I made it more difficult that it should have been, but it was fun. Got Debian up on the system with no problems. -- Erick Stohr Burnsville, MN erick at enrwebdev.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list