So, I got an athy XP 1700+ for Father's day, and decided to plug it into my Asus A7M266 system. First I flashed the BIOS (I was on 1003, and you must be at or above 1005).
Got that done, rebooted, all seemed well. So, I swapped chips and fired it up. BSOD's and lockups all over the place...