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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61679)	11/2/2001 11:07:08 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 275872

What the article confirmed was that a specific board was unstable if you swap CPUs and you have an old BIOS. "We ran into a few problems with the board not POSTing after changing CPUs without resetting the BIOS but luckily no major issues that couldn't be fixed with a BIOS update. " Since an up to date BIOS that fixes the problem is available and since most people (esp. those who care most about stability) don't swap CPUs a lot it doesn't seem to be that big of issue. And this is for a new board on a relatively new chipset, and possibly a pre production sample sent to a reviewer. Box makers would have easy access to an up to date BIOS, so if you buy a pre built system, then you should have no problem. If you like building your own, then you should know enough to get updated drivers and an up to date BIOS. Tim