New box does not load BIOS

[sweetser at TheWorld.com]

> Did you ever find the Asus page for the board? 2500+ is a fairly new chip.
> Some BIOSes only support cpus up to a certain frequency, and past that you
> have to first flash the bios while booted with a slower chip. I've seen
> this with some Tyans and an Itanium system. It's worth checking into.

If I had an extra chip around, I would give that a try :-)  The tech sheet
at ASUS does have new software for their BIOS as of 4/21/04.  I think that
is the most likely problem - software.

doug