I'm sure the moderators will post some ideas, but the obvious questions exist?
Is the bios current?
Have you installed all the current drivers for win98 (se?)?
Have you installed all service packs and updates to the O/S?
Have you double checked (researched) to see the compatibility between mobo, cpu, memory and video?
Are you underpowered?
Have you jumpered the board switches properly? Have you read the manual twice?
Step back start slow and do each step one at a time until the problem(s) start, so you can eliminate things.
Are the Blue Screens of Death telling you/us something?
I just built my first pentium based machine and I am having a really bad time of it. Every time I try to install an OS I get error messeges or the blue screen of death! I finally got win98 installed but the system is so unstable I can hardly do a thing without it locking up or giving me the blue screen. I can't even upgrade to XP! What the heck!!?? Is there some sort of trick to building a pentium system? I never had this much trouble with Athlon machines!! Please HELP!!!
Machspeed pt800bp Motherboard
P4 2.4ghz 800mhz FSB HT
512mb DDR 3200
gforcefx 5600

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