Really strange hang

Hi,
this is the 3rd time i get this strange hang (with about 2-3 months between). It happens without any change in hardware and looks like this.
I can work with my computer for about 20 minutes. Then the monitor turns black and the whole thing hanges (the LEDs on the motherboard are all green)
Neither the power off button (soft-off) nor the reset button work anymore, the vent turns, the hd spins, the cddrives don't open anymore. Power is still there. After pulling the power-plug and restart the whole thing works between 1/2min and 20 min and then the same. I've removed all PCI cards, checked the RAM and so on. But that doesn't help. 2 two times before i got it running by turning off/on, shutting down via software (in windows) and lots of other combinations, but that all combinations i tried so far didn't help.
Some times (after the first few hangs) just the HD LED turns on (on the front of my box) but the Mainboard LED stays black, and the whole computer don't boot (not even the BIOS (All LEDs on the MSI board are black then).
I've updated my GFX card from GF2MX to GF4TI but those crashes also happened before that (the 2 times before) so i doesn't have to do anything with that.
Hardware:
MSI-6330 (K7T-ProA2)
Athlon 1GHZ
384MB Ram
Any ideas? I am pretty lost now, since it the problem is reproduceable but not solveable (and the timesteps of the hangs are variing ...)
Thanks alot.
-Stephan

right, this whole does it support 333Mhz FSB is really pi**ing me off now. I got a MSI KT3 Ultra ARU and I wanta get the athlon 2700+. The manual and whitepaper does say that its not supported but... http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/KT333.jsp... the chipset apparently does so why does the mobo manufacturer decide to engineer the mobo to hold back the chipset! Either way, after i've posted this i'm gunna check the northbridge to see what seral i got and i'm probablly going to buy the 2700+ anyway. I don't like spending money like this but i want the 333 FSB! If it don't work i'll get a mobo that does support it. Why have a piece of hardware that doesn't do what it should do eh?
The 333MHz DDR perfomance increase is a waste of money if you can't utilize it with a 333MHz CPU.

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