Wouldn’t you know it! Come on ASUS, you sort of got caught with your pants down on this one. It looks like a possible BIOS update could be in order here?

The plain fact that you own a PC with a 64-bit capable processor may not be enough to also run the 64-bit version of Windows XP. A reader pointed us to this story at OS News, where apparently an Athlon64-based Asus notebook is not able to install Microsoft’s most recent operating system.

We have checked back with Asus and received a confirmation that the devices in fact do not support the software at this time. “We are working on Windows 64-bit on our notebook platforms and will announce our plans for this support in the coming weeks,” said Rick Allen, spokesperson for Asus.

He said that Windows XP x64 was not supported at this time and he was not able to provide a final list of models that will offer support in the future. [Read the rest]