Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Well I did more research and have to clarify my statement. > The installed BIOS is v4.05 which indeed was the original > BIOS is actually only one version below the last BIOS > provided by Tyan for the Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M). I'm confused. I didn't know Athlon MP's were PowerNow!/Cool'n Quiet processors. What exact models are you trying to use? I've never seen an old Athlon MP system with such power management. > The new features and fixes for v4.06 are: > Fixes bios resetting during reboot issue. > Fixes hang on shutdown issue when no keyboard is present. > I find it hard to believe that flashing the BIOS to v4.06 > is going to fix the mptscsi problem. Oh, this is unrelated to the PowerNow/Cool'n Quiet. My apologies (did I cross threads/concepts?). -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***