The Mother Board

You need 16 chips on 256MB sticks and 8 chips on 128MB sticks. Both must have 8x16 internal organisation.
Some memory manufacturers still supply i440BX compatible RAM but prices seem to be high. Ask your local dealer and have a look at Ebay or similar sites.

Model / OPN number or ordering code printed onto the box ?

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/S ... /A7V133-C/
-> 1009 final and/or 1010_001 beta

The only A7V133 version with 1007 as final is the -M

You should try the 2.35a Beta-Bios - AFAIK it fixes the HDD detection problem. Just drop Kuriaki a PM and he'll send you this Bios or give you a link to download.

One family member to add:
http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7vta2_pro.html

Sounds like a major Bios BUG.
Tried to use Shuttle/ECS Bios on one of your Boards to test ?
Tried to ask support of all four companies ?

Are you sure the CPU runs at 166MHz or does the post show 166 Mhz but it runs at 200MHz ?
Any program capable of reading-out the time stamp counter should be able to verify the real MHz.
But it might be possible it's an early version board maxing out at 166MHz with this CPU.

http://www.hijackthis.de/logfiles/819b6639eea9ea6619bf47e73c667729.html -> Link available for 72 hours Nothing problematic found Delete this stuff: O2 - BHO: (no name) - {549B5CA7-4A86-11D7-A4DF-000874180BB3} - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC} - (no file) File i...

A classic Athlon should work without problems bu a Thunderbird Slot-A above ~750MHz only with a small mod. If you have the K7V-T then the T-Bird runs well without mod.

http://www.k7v.com

http://www.de.tomshardware.com/praxis/2 ... index.html
-> Sorry - I found it only in german

Please don't mix Java with Javascript !

Javascript (or better Jscript) capability have all browsers . Java is a programming language and this has to be downloaded/installed.

Maybe the Bios is confused because of mixing PC-3200 with PC-2700. Try manual memory timings set to 166 MHz or DDR-333 or PC-2700. With three sticks of memory you may have to reduce timings for stability. Make sure you install the two 256MB sticks in one channel and the single 512MB in the other cha...