What a fucking ordeal!!!
Crappy prices & worse selection.
Got a Barton 2500+ & 2 sticks 256 PC2700. Also bought the wife a new case with mo power (400W).
Come home, pull her crap & reinstall & it's up & going. Then the fun began. I switched everything & whoil...WTF???, it stops at the BIOS screen. I restart & enter the BIOS to reset & whoil...WTF? Now it won't even reboot. Powers up & nothing more. In other words, I've spent the last 6 hours pulling & switching memory, cpus, hardware, etc & end up completely removing the mobo & starting from complete scratch. I figure, what the hell, let's put it 100% together & if it still won't boot, take it camping with us this week & throw that motherfucker in Lake Michigan. Whoila-it works.
New score at PC pitstop-1126 (still tweaking.