Crapdoodle! I've got more MoBos I can try setting up for Win'98 in that case. But this only has to run XP just well enough to run the ROM Burner. I've no intention to use a Windows Box for anything by that.

I emphatically refuse to deal with anything between '98 and XP. I've left 7 on HP_Maxi only because it's too much trouble to get ubuntu set up to run the 3g modem. It's a dedicated Browser/PDF machine, I use OpenOffice only rarely for simple spreadsheets an Notepad for the occasional .TXT assembly for import into to my very happy little OS9 world.

I've got three more PC-133 boards for taking a run at Win'98 if the (Lunchbox) BEAST from Tekelec isn't up to it:

My last resort is a cute cute little board: AGP, four PCI, three ISA slots and a PII CPU Card. It says 650B REV 1.2

Second choice is an ABIT-KT7: AGP, six PCI, one ISA and a CPO socket with which I'm unfamiliar.

The next one to go into testing seems to be a winner, Intel Desktop Board D815EEA2 / D815EPEA2

The specs I found has a Win98/WinME boot time performance chart: intel/tualatin/mobo.shtml

I think I have time to try this one before work, update soon . . .

. . . comments/suggestions will be much appreciated. :approve: