BL> What worried s me is not scandisk (who gives a shit anyway)
BL> it's the thought that Microsoft has built somethign sneaky into
BL> the Athlon itself, or the Athlon BIOS. Where else can the
BL> message becoming from? If I boot from floppy and the 486 works
BL> okay and the Athlon doesn't... what's the difference? It's only
BL> the CPU and BIOS.

DD> A non-Intel CPU?

 An AMD Athlon. That's why I went for AMD... to avoid M$ tricks in
the Intel.

Regards,
Bob

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