VIA KT400 Network Card Problems!

Question

I've read allot about the problems I've been having and done many searches on Google and it all seems to come down to this: ALL VIA Motherboards in the KT400 series(and many other chipsets) lock up when using ANY Wireless Card\Usb Adapter. The frusterating part is nobody seems to have a clear answer on how to fix this or if it's even fixable  
The forum linked down below tries to claim this only happens with Linksys cards.. This is false as I have a Microsoft Wireless G USB adapter and the EXACT SAME thing happens to me.
The strange part is if you are just browsing the web and reading text, everything works 100% fine. But as soon as you do something that uses DirectX or 3D Acceleration, like say Streaming Videos.. it freezes with the mouse curser just sitting there and I must hard reset the system.
Does anyone out there know of ANY kind of fix? I'm dying to know.
You can view someone elses post referring to the exact problem I have in the VIA Arena Forum
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.00 Ghz
512 MB Ram
GeForceMX 5900XT
Antec 420 Watt Power Supply
Windows XP SP2
Latest VIA Hyperion Drivers

Answer 1

Hey guys it's me again.. Well the computer now seems to freeze less than it did before, but it still freezes.  
After all this going back and forth and troubleshooting hassle ive decided it has to unfortunatlely be a hardware problem. I've stated before that it only freezed when running a 3d app and network card running.. but now it freezes even when I'm just on the web. It's just so totally random, sometimes it will freeze twice in one minute and sometimes it won't freeze for almost a whole day.
I've narrowed it down to 3 things: Bad HD, Bad Processor, and worst of all Bad Motherboard. Another possibility, does a the lithium battery on the motherboard ever cause problems if it's almost dead?(Assuming it's the CMOS battery?) And could that cause problems?
I had an episode before that I didn't tell you guys before. This was still after i had the network card, but probably unrelated. The computer once or twice made a very strange electrical zapping noise or screetching noise before and the whole system would almost fail and then try to resume again, and then just shut down.
After this event happened I figured it was the PSU not putting out enough power as I had installed new hardware lately. I bought a new 430W psu and while I haven't had the strange problem I had before, I still get random lockups.
I'm pretty sure it is the harddive, because it would make sense since I heard this noise before and the fact that it just freezes could just be the HD getting stuck and not spinning anymore.
It's funny because I had just replaced a faulty harddrive before in one of my older computers. However that one was much more obvious as it would constantly have to repair files in sectors. The HD I have now never comes up with errors, but maybe It is running fine before it decides to lockup.
Yet another thing it could be is the processor maybe just not generating enough juice to keep the processes going or something.
I did have problems with freezing before the network adapter now that I think back, but they were far and few between and now the problems are more pronounced. I'm going to hope it just the HD, if not it's really going to suck to already have to buy another motherboard or processor. I just built the system from scratch last year.
Sigh, Oh well. Glad for anymore insight on this issue and your opinions on what is most likely the problem. I'm going to go looking for a HD in the mean time.