Ok as above I got a sempron 3000+, which I bought off ebay, its only a month old and seems to be ok, but the print has come off the chip with thermal goop, so I can't establish the exact revision/version of the 3000+.
Also have an ECS NForce3-A which I got from ebuyer. It's supposed to support 266/333/400, socket 754 64Bit K8's (I know the sempron is a 64 bit from the box).
Now, according to AMD site all the 64 bit sempron's have 400FSB, but when I put my own 333 DDR in it, it boots gets through the copying files stages of XP install fine, then blue screens on reboot. When I put the 400 DDR in it, it refuses to even boot to BIOS (no beeps either). I've flashed bios to latest version.
I installed xp pro on a spare disk I had lying around, checked and ghosted the original hdd and ran cpuid - it identifies it as E6, the memory as 166Mhz and the CPU FSB as 201Mhz - I've returned the 400 I bought and ordered some better stuff.
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