Hi, I have a MSI 6330 and 6340 boards with a 1100Mhz Athlon and 800mhz Duron respectively. I have them in operation for the last 3 - 4 months. I have had no problems at all in the way you describe. I have never had a Linux crash on either of the machines. I would look elsewhere for the problem - maybe memory or video card. Regards, Keith Gibbons, Ireland ----- Original Message ----- From: jayhen To: suse Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 4:18 PM Subject: [SLE] MSI K7T Trubo Motherboard Approximately three weeks ago I purchased the following system: AMD 1.2Ghz 266Mhz FSB MSI K7T Turbo (MS6330) ATA 100 controller 384 MB geheugen Matrox 40GB UDMA 100/7200RPM HardDisk Leadtek NVIDIA TNT-2 M64 32MB TV Out AGP videocard Floppy DVD ROM 12x/CD40x IDE Creative Soundblaster Live Value 1024 CD-Rewriter 16x10x40 Plexwriter IDE etc. I installed WindowsMe on a 6 GB partition to be able to burn CD and play games and installed Linux on the rest of the hard drive. The installation of both operating systems went perfectly. I started Linux up and started copying files from my older Linux computer to this computer. I immediately noticed that Linux began to hang temporarily and get very choppy and slow during the file transfers. I thought the problems were due to the network. So I copied files from one dir to another dir on the same computer and the same problem occured. Now totally pissed off at Linux I booted to Windows to see how windows was doing. Windows was worst, the computer locked up totally until the file transfer was finished. So now totally pissed off I tried to return or get my computer fixed and was told that my problems were totally normal. So I asked the salesman to show me on another system (Different type of motherboard) to see if the same problem would occur. It didn't and was told I couldn't compare appels with oranges. The other motherboard was a MSI K7T Pro-2 A The computer that I'm currently using is a AMD Athlon 500Mhz system and I have never had this problem. After trying to convince me that all computers will pause/ lock up during file transfers without success the salesman started to get aggressive. I almost punched him in the mouth but decided to stay calm. After refusing to acknowledge that there is a problem with the MSI K7T Turbo (MS6330) motherboard, he basically called me stupid and to get the hell out of the store. I left after getting his name and lets just say he hasn't heard the last of me yet. My questions are: 1: does anyone else have, had or have heard of this problem? 2: are there bug fixes to correct this problem? If so where can I get the files. I noticed that there is a VIA 686B southbridge data-corruption bug fix for Asus but not for MSI or have I just not found it yet. Anyones help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Jay