I’m having a trouble installing win 98 on a pc having a motherboard of “ASUS A7V8X-MX” 128 MB DDR RAM/Geforce MX 400 videocard and a processor ATHLON XP 2500. At first i was able to install win 98 on the said system, but after 15 mins sometimes even less my pc wil display the BlueScreen of Death and will hang. I checked if the Processor is overheating but its within the normal temperature, so to isolate the problem i reinstalled win 98 again (clean installation that is)without installing any drivers(i.e videocard,lancard,soundcard etc.) to able to isolate if any of the drivers is causing the BSoD. After that I run the screesaver, waited and observed for 5-10 minutes if the problem will be gone, but unfortunately it didn’t the BSoD is still there and my pc will hang. I tried re-installing win 98 3 times of but no sucess BSoD still comes. To make the problem more complicated, upon boot-up i noticed that my pc takes time to display the P.O.S.T (power on self test) but after taking time to display the P.O.S.T it will continue to load windows 98 but to my suprise after restarting my pc will display a blank screen, no cursor blink or anything at all but i can see there is an activity in my hard disk LED. So what i did is to push the restart button on my pc but still i get a blank screen but sometimes it was able to continue and load windows. I also tried shutting down the pc for 3-5 minutes thinking it will reset any memory effect of that kind and still no success. Before I forgot the my pc is just a year old. Prior to win 98 I was using win xp pro for about 7 months before i went on installing win 98. IS THIS A MEMORY RELATED PROBLEM ?? I can only guess if this is a memory related problem. Does it have an effect on the P.O.S.T if you have a RAM. Please help me.
Thanks.