On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:28:54AM -0600, Browder, Tom wrote: > It turns out that the other dual AMD we have has the Tyan S2466 > motherboard and it has NEVER locked up! > > So what is the preferred motherboard for the AMD Athlon MP? I've got the ASUS one. I would say that nowdays there isnt any point getting dual athlon boards given their slow performance relative to a modern system. I did find it very sensitive to BIOS version, PCI cards and also RAM quality. And finally except for very recent Tyan BIOSes you need a PS/2 mouse connected to avoid IDE lockups