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Solved it. I changed my USB optical mouse for a good old fashioned PS2 mouse and now the keyboard works. Obviously really. *Shrugs*. Sometimes I really hate PCs.

I've just put my shiny new toy together Gigabyte K8NXP AMD 64 3000+ Seagate 120gb ide drive club3d 6600gt corsair ram and truly lovely it is too, but only if I use a knoppix boot disk. I can install WinXP pro fina and dandy but as soon as it finishes the install does the reboot and...

Will that be a permanent solution or will I have to get out my colouring set every so often?

Do Durons generally come with the L1 bridges intact? If not is it easy enough for a ham fisted klutz (who me?) to reconnect 'em? Assuming I can find some of this conductive gloop.

Are pre-tested cpus worth the extra cash? Yeah I know that "it depends on the extra". I'll try to be more specific. I've got a BH6 and celly@450 and I am going to upgrade to a new celly. Options buy a pre-tested chip, 566@850 for 107UKP or 600@900 for 128UKP, or risk it and get a 566...