My GA-7VRX is running an Athlon Palamino 1900 Mhz processor , with 256 Meg DDR Ram (un-certified), standard clock speed . I got round the lockup problem by hitting the reset button at the end of the first boot attempt. AGP card is a Gigabyte AG32S (Rage 128), a budget 3d model . The overclock utility for the rage 128 card fails to install correctly , another black mark for Gigabyte , I suspected the video card as faulty until I found this review site, thanks guys I can go back to my supplier and give them a hassle. The GA-7VRX was cheaper priced, but if I knew there was an AGP problem I would have picked another motherboard !

I had an athlon 1800 xp with 512mb ddr ram, 60 gig hard drive and sb live 5.1 sound card on this main board. I decided to upgrade my graphic card from a voodoo 3 3000 pci to an nvidia ge force 2 mmx agp card. I installed the card and drivers and the system kept locking up in 3d applications. I reinstalled both card and drivers but still the same locking up. I bought another agp card, this time the nvidia ge force 2 titanium, this one worked well for a few minutes before locking up, I tried the usual re install but still no joy. I then tried the radeon 7500le, same result only with random shutdowns and lockups. By this time I was quite annoyed and decided to try changing the main board, I bought a nice cheap ecs k7s6a and wow, what a result, fantastic. I should of got shot of the ga7 vrx in the first place. the ecs k7s6a is fab, I've had no problems, lockups or game crashes yet and half the price too.