I have an PIII 600Mhz machine running a Supertek motherboard with the VIA chipsets on. I started haveing problem after a few months using the system. To fix my problem, I bought a new PC with an ALi chipset. My friend uses a ECS Motherboard (K7VMA) also with the same Via chipset (686 southbridge chip) and a AMD Duron 750 CPU. After 6 months of use, his PC shows the same problems as I had with my previous PC using the VIA chipset. The PC’s was stable for the first few months, just suddenly you can’t load any more programs on the PC, as it crashes the registry everytime, also if you FDISK, reformat and reload Windows, you can’t get to a stage to use Windows as you get Kernell errors and a lott of other errors during the setup process. Givingthe fact that we used the PC with the same configuration for months before this started, it is not a configuration problem. It is as if the Chipsets are failing. Can anyone please help with possible solutions to help us fix this? Writing to VIA or the MB’s manufacturer doesn’t help, as you don’t get any answer back from them.