BSOD upon entering Win98SE

[Cheetahsloth]

Ok, here's another problem, this time with the roommate's computer.... He's been having a helluva time with BSODs upon entering Windows with a Tyan Trinity K7 and a 750Mhz classic Athalon. So the solution of course was to get rid of the Tyan board and purchase a nice new Asus K7V-T board. Sounded like a plan to me and actually seemed to work for awhile (3 days I believe). All was well with the world until earlier this evening when he installed Age of Kings and received a new big BSOD for his troubles. Upon rebooting he receives a BSOD before the 98 'logon' screen even appears. All seemed lost so he formatted the drive and reinstalled 98SE and.... got a BSOD on the first reboot. We swapped out video cards, sound cards and memory all to no avail. BSOD every freggin time. Here's the components of his system:

Asus K7V-T with 750 Mhz Athalon
Geforce 256 Annihilator
PCI 128 soundcard
128 MB Generic PC133 RAM
HP 7500 CD burner

I'm open to any suggestions as to what the heck could be going on over here... Thanks!

 

[BadThad]

What does it say on the BSOD?

 

[Cheetahsloth]

Actually the roommate got the machine to stop bluescreening after another install of 98SE. The only possible culprit may have been a faulty install of Direct Media during the AOE II install. He told me after the fact that it died before Direct X had finished installing. Thanks for the response.

 

[blueghost75]

Probably that generic RAM..............