A good thing about Asus is their support for
their mobos and BIOS upgrades even for boards no longer marketed.
Thanks for mentioning your need to upgrade BIOS to use the Athlon XP. That may be "in the cards" for me.
Alex
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)