I've done a google on this but didn't find much of use.
Almost 2 years old and until now trouble free. This a rev 3 board.
It has started locking up intermitently and only a restart will sort it.
It is not a software or hard drive issue as I have tried different hard

K7VTA3 with USB2 PCI Card.
ext. 300 GB Harddrive don't work
at my PCI Card for USB2
With USB1 connected the HD works fine.

I have four k7s5a pro motherboards with a variety of Athlons.
In the "cpu pnp setup" page in the BIOS there are various cpu and memory
settings including 166/133 for the cpu and memory respectively.
Does the 166Mhz cpu setting work with faster Althons (Barton, Semprons)?

If so, how....
HB

I recently bought an AMD Sempron 3000+ (Socket A, Barton core, 512K L2
cache) with PC Chips M825g mobo and noticed that this mobo's BIOS
doesn't have a setting for enabling any CPU overheat protection
shutdown.

Just built a K7VTA3 Rev6. PC 2700 Mem. Althon XP ... I am at home and
this box is at the office...so  I can not recall exact processor ...
266 bus.
The problem is heat related ... it works fine with the case open.