> Btw, for people who are hesitant to buy an Athlon board with the
> VIA K*133 chipset, I noticed that, for example, Asus now has
> boards with a 266Mhz FSB featuring ALI, SiS and AMD 761 chipsets.

My cow orker reports that in the case of the A7V, the newest BIOS image
(a7v1007.awd) eliminates the corruption problems; doing repeated builds
to local IDE filesystems hasn't shown any signs of corruption on a
machine that was rife with problems prior to upgrading the BIOS.