written by Dave OH on 06/09/2004
After all this time I have found the reason for the instability (if it will run at all) of the motherboard with the AMD Thunderbird processor. It is not the motherboard itself but the inability of the VIA KT-133 Chipset to handle timing problems due to the design of the AMD Socket A CPU, (longer traces length which meant that the processor could be used with the less common AMD 750 chipset but not the KT-133). So my upgrade Thunderbird chip is of no use.