I hope the former...

Nope, didn't help. Time to give up on this board and send it back and go for
an Intel CPU one. I was taking a risk with a dual CPU AMD board and I've now
spend hours trying to get this thing to install Windows 2000 Server. I
should have known better :-)

Just doesn't want to work no matter how I try. Every avenue draws a blank.
Windows 2000 SP4 fails to install with multiple weird errors about missing
drivers etc.

Windows 2000 without SP4 installs a lot cleaner but then trashes the
registry after about the 3rd reboot.

Rob.