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My Kingdom for an Athlon XP?

Not always - but sometimes (about Canberra).

Got an socket A board about a year ago to help diagnose a problem (with another socket A system).  Quite nice, with dual DDR ram, and other goodies.  Specifically got a socket A because of the CPU I had off the other board.

Come today I finally have a need for it (after anothe board died) and I throw a Duron 1.3 (off said dead board) into it and it tell me no way (the board only runs CPUs with a 1.4 clock speed or higher) so I throw my Athlon original 1GHz into it and it melts it for me (after BIOS telling me for a few seconds it was running at 750MHz - obviously not!)  It is after this that I spy the "1.4GHz or higher" note in the manual...

I then spent the rest of the Saturday afternoon trying to source ANY socket A CPU in Canberra to no avail.  Seems they are in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane but not here.

So looking for another solution I dug up the old RT video editing system I have not used for a year and setup that as a replacement (not too shabby - PIII-667 on a BX with a dual head Matrox G400 AGP card) 

The good part of the story is I am now flush with hard drives (RT video editing from a few years back remember - fast drives via striped RAID) so I now have 4 extra drives to play with.

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