Recently I bought a soyo SY-K7ADA mobo with a 950 Duron chip. I was going to slam in a bunch of scsi drives and use it for a file server, but some of the drives were toast and I ended up looking for an IDE solution. When I was digging around my computer closet.... (You all have one) I found a W/D 6 gig drive that had a Beos install on it. I plopped it in and it flew! You have to disable the onboard sound and put a sound card in it, but I have found that this is a good fast solution for someone who wants a dedicated Be Box that runs on DDR memory and faster AMD chips. If you are shopping for a faster mobo/cpu combo that works with Be, I think this would be a good choice. It has the ALi ALiMAGiK1 (1647 /1535D+ ) chipset. Hope this helps! I can't wait to plop an XP-1800 on this board :-)

There is a seemingly better workaround for the AthlonXP. From Caz on begroovy
The Fix:
Open kernel_intel with Diskprobe, do a search for GenuineIntel. Hit Alt-G and Diskprobe will find GenuineIntel again. Ok you should see something like the following, Started only %ld CPUs, disabling all nonboot CPUs GenuineIntel. Ok now change the GenuineIntel to the following AuthenticAMD. Case is important. If you have used tricks such as modifying libroot.so.patch and kernel_intel.patch, change them back to their original state. Enable SSE in your bios if you have such an option and reboot. BeOS should now boot ok
I think he is working on a way to fix it from windows???

I wasn't aware of a problem with BeOS and booting an XP chip. I only have a 950 Duron at the moment and am not having any problems. As soon as I get the XP 1800 I will have more info, but thanxs in advance for letting me know what I have to do to get Be going on the faster Athlon CPU's.