I have an abit kt7a motherboard, a sb live value, and an itchy head from trying to figure out the malfunction. I have heard that the sb lives and southbridge 686 don't like each other. Like it locks up the computer and stuff? I also heard that the ata100 controllers are also slow because of the 686 chipset? I was just wondering, because my cdrom kept locking up the computer while I was copying files, although I think that was a heat problem. Please comment on these rumors. Thanks