Tom, They could be. The strange thing is the VIA chipset Celeron and PIII
5700s were reasonably stable. I used a 5716 PIII/450 as a production unit
for more than a year with zero issues, first with Win 98SE and later with
W2K.
HH

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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Yeah, the Via threw me. None of my Compaqs had the Via chipset. I seem to
recall they were very flaky

Tom
"HH" wrote in message
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Don't think so, Tom. The 5600s series were VIA chipset boxes with K6/III
processors.
HH
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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Is the 5600i and the 5600s the same basic machine? I have a pair of
5600i
machines (one P3-450 and one P3-500) and they both had clean XP Pro
installs. USB works just fine.

Tom