Thanks, and an update. She lives! I was having a royal PITA on boot....as in she wouldn't. What it finally turned out being was the daugther card that provides extra power smoothing. Apparently something there isn't right. But Kingston ValuRam seems to work so far with the Gigabyte board (it boots). Now comes the Win2k install, then the upgrade to XP 64. It seems that a lot of vendors have been waiting for the OS release. VIA has beta Hyperion unified drivers for XP-64, as does Nvidia and ATI (although I have a very cheapy GF4Mx440 for testing purposes), and Sun has released a beta of 64 bit Java, both runtime and SDK. Oh, and the bezels were easy to adapt. The floppy one requires you to remove the faceplate and button (and it's easier to do with a disk inserted), then place it into the frame and butt it against the bezel. The CDCVC bezel only needs the end of the tray removed, but you have to remove the bezel, insert the drive, reattach the bezel, then position the drive so that the plastic button rests on the drive tray button. The next test is gonna be if the OS installs correctly....