Hi, I was in the same situation as you, intel through and through, then i went for a 1.1Ghz TBird and a abit kt7, i had alot of problems with this board and sent it back and got a Asus a7v133 instead and it is 100% stable. This could have been because i changed my ram (most probably) i now have 128Mb cas2 133 mhz crucial ram and this definitly helps stability, so does a good power supply (300 watt or more).
Hope this helps
Tom
P.S. i am running win2k.