Would someone running an XP2000 and WinME (I know, I haven't had time to upgrade it to Win2K yet) look under System Information, Summary Info and tell me if the CPU line looks like this:
AMDAthalon(tm) Authentic AMD ~1667 mhz
the kid's XP1700 specificall mentions XP...
AMDAthalon(tm) Authentic AMD XP1900+ ~1467 mhz
thnks,
p.