I'm openning this thread to help address a lot of the recent issues with the Abit KT7A and SBlive.

From what i've seen when trouble shooting this problem there may even be 2 or more different issues with the board. This would explain a lot of the varied results i've seen in other threads.

If you've experienced problems then let us know, even if you havn't been able to solve the problem tell us whats been tried.

Maybe it will work on for someone else.

My Experience:
I had encountered some random lockups when using the above setup I tried disabling the SB16 emulation, reserving irqs, enable the 15-16m memmory hole. Alot of these seemed to make things worse. Eventually i found that setting the AGP drive strength to 'EA' solved the problem. One thing that also seemed to aggrivate the problem was my usb nic i was using to download drivers. Whenever i'd connect the nic and start transfering it would look up in about 15-20 seconds. If the nic was disconnect it ran fine.

Note: I'm running a Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 GTS PRO 32M DDR

I would really appreciate everyone's $.02 on this one. I know there are still a lot of people struggling with this board.