Just bought an ecs combo special at Fry's today. What a pain! I called Fry's service dept and told them that this motherboard won't boot up with a barton cpu without a bios flash. They thanked me for the info. Fortunately, I had a spare duron, and was able to install all the drivers with it. Hopefully, a bios flash will make my barton work. Avoid ecs like the plague!