Help - What is dying on my computer?

[jblondi]

Ok, this gets a little complicated, I am completely stumped. I tried to install the promise ultra 66 card into my machine last night. I connected it to my drive and then it went through its boot routine but would just hang after the win98 splash screen. The cursor would just flash forever. Anyways, I tried to set everything back to the way it was, and put the drive back on the IDE channel. After I tried to boot again I get windows protection errors while trying to load "Vcoom"? The same thing happened again, even with the origional configuration. So, I tried to reinstall win98. I get all the way through the windows install and the machine boots in for the last time and I get a blue screen error. After about 5 trys of reinstalls it happens everytime. The other strange thing that occurs is when I try to hit F8 to get into safe mode it pops up invalid system disk???? There is no disk in the floppy at all. Im thinking it could either be a bad stick of ram, or for some reason the hard drive is hosed. I tried to install windows on another 1 gb drive and it seems to work out ok. Let me know what you guys think, any input on what the culprit might be, and how to find out would be great. Thanks.

Abit Be6 Rev 1.
Celeron 366 OC 550
128 mb generic pc 100 ram
30 gb quantum Lm fireball
Creative TNT2 ultra
Sblive!
ATI Tv tuner VE
Promise Ultra ata 66 controller
3com 3c509b tx 10/100 ethernet

 

[obenton]

Try the reinstall after removing the Promise card.

 

[hungrypete]

did you format? Try formatting the C: drive and doing a clean install of windows. Then try the promise card again, maybe in a different pci slot.

 

[Bleep]

Your problem may be due to the overclock. Clock it back to the default speed before installing the OS.
Bleep

 

[jblondi]

I tried 2 of the three suggestions. I dont really want to think about formatting right now cause I have lots of stuff not backed up. I did set the clock speed to normal, and I tried to reinstall windows with just the video card installed. Neither of those helped. Any other suggestions. Thanks for the suggestions so far.