I've Now had my second Asus SMP (or duel socket) motherboard crap out on me, the one board is a P2B-DS which has always had very flaky voltage circuits that I've fixed quite a few times but it's gotten worse. The other is a A7M266-D which I thankfully was given a replacement for, it just sits and turns the power supply on and off every couple seconds and not much else. It just seems very strange to me that these really high end boards would die. Bu then again they probably were servers subjected to way more use than a desktop.... really wish they had not of died because especially with the advent of new software taking more advantage of SMP the duely's preform way better today than they ever did. My dell precision 220 (with it's 2 copermine slot 1 1ghz pIII's) is probably the best PC I've ever had.