need some serious help

[mikieboy]

iam working on a friends computer amd k62 500 with 64mb of memory i believe the mobo is a pcchips all intergrated. i put on my 300 watt power supply to make sure that wasnt the problem. now the problem it wont let me install win 98 it starts but just quits i have tried me as well. i have changed out the ram and tested the hard drive with western digitals testing software. could this be the motherboard. or shoot me some other ideas to check. i also changed the battery. thanks in advance

 

[FlippyBoy]

was it working before, and stopped, or are you building this system for the first time? it could be almost anyhting, but i would tend to lean towards the ram or motherboard. are you sure the chip is ok?

 

[mikieboy]

the computer just kinda quit working and went crazy. it started by not working some of the time and got worse. one big problem is that the girl smoked like a chimney next to it. i have switched ram that is why 8iam leaning towards mobo

 

[obenton]

... or cpu went bad.

 

[FlippyBoy]

short of buying a new system (you know you can put together a very good system for very little money now), i would give her computer a thourough (sp?) cleaning. get a can of copmpressed air, take her computer apart (outdoors, for her house's sake), and give it a good blow job. if that doesnt help, i wonder if her hard drive might be develping bad sectors..?