Hey–
I have a custom built system, that contains the following:
Athlon 800 Processor, FIC AZ-11 motherboard with VIA Apollo AT133 and 686A chipsets with latest BIOS upgrade, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB HD (UDMA 66 – Primary Master on schedule 80 cable); formatted as 2 drives (C and D), 1.44 floppy, Creative Labs CDR and CDRW (Secondary Master and Slave), Iomega Zip Drive attached as slave to the HD (is this a problem??), generic DIMM memory ((2) 128 sticks), running Win98SE as the OS.
This machine runs great in DOS. However, when running in Windows, crashes frequently (at least once per hour), even when running the screen saver. Seems more prone to crash when there is lots of drive activity, but does occationally crash when doing word processing, internet, etc. There isn’t any one program that will crash this system. Have uninstalled chipset drivers and re-installed several times. I’ve also formated the hard drive and re-installed the OS 3 times. I’ve had the same results each time.
Is this a hardware failure of some type? Is there a way to isolate what the problem is? What now?
