Windows 98 SE Loading

I had an Asus P5 Motherboard with AMD 350 mghz chip. I replaced it with an Asus A7N266 with Athalon XP1800 chip.

Computer Boots and Windows 98 Splash screen comes up for about 20 Seconds.

Then screen goes monochrome and you see 3 line autoexec.bat instructions listed.

Then computer goes to “Sleep” for about 90 seconds. NO Hard Disk activity.

After the “nap”, the Hard Drive activity starts again and Windows 98 SE loads fine.

Total time until Win 98 is loaded is 3.5 minutes.

I have reloaded Windows98 SE several times. I have cleaned the registry with On Track Fix It.

My two Hard Drives are both Maxtor ATA 100 Ultra DMA 7200 RPM and I used the 80 pin IDE cables.

Any ideas would be welcomed!!!!!!

Thanks!
Alan