Considering I'd get various hangs at different times(booting, already running) I think I had flacky hardware with the Soyo/Athlon. For the most part everything has been fine with the Abit/P4.

I was having a problem installing Visual Age C++ 3.0 - the second phase of installation(after the reboot) never happens. Somebody else posted something about this a while back at the forums at [link|http://www.ecomstation.com|http://www.ecomstation.com] though I can no longer find that thread.

I'd never had a problem installing VAC on eCS before, though I realized that I'd not installed any fix packs like I had done this time. So I reinstalled eCS and I was able to get VAC installed by doing it before any of the fixpacks. Today I'll be reinstalling the fixpacks.

The only fixpack I've consistently had problems with was the TCP/IP one. Jack mentioned that others with a Matrox video card have seen the same problem - so it's not the motherboard/CPU. Even though the install hangs, TCP/IP seems to function fine. I have not yet installed the TCP/IP fixpack on the Abit/P4 so I'll report back the results later today.