Please help with A7V (I think) problem

[Moosashi]

I am having a problem that I hope someone here can shed some light on.
I have an Asus A7V board with an AMD T-Bird 1.2Ghz and 2 256Mb PC 133 chips ( I think the manufacturer was NCP or something like that) running windows 98SE.
My problem is that the PC will freeze for about 5 seconds or so and then chug along it's merry way like nothing happened. This happens 2-3 times an hour at least and is not limited to any one application. It happens while surfing the net, playing an online game, playing an offline game, using a word processor, etc.
A freind of mine told me that since I don't have name brand memory, it could be the cause of my problem. Something about it not being up to spec and the speed of my cpu/board is too much for it and it creates a bottleneck.
Can anyone confirm/deny this or offer suggestions on what I can check? I would hate to spend money for memory just to have it not be the problem.
As you can probably tell, I don't know a heck of alot about it so any insight or suggestion would be welcome.

Thanks,
~Moo

 

[Boonesmi]

that can happen if your powersupply isnt providing enough juice

 

[Moosashi]

I should have mentioned I also have a 300watt power supply as well. I think that is monitored by the system monitor asus provided. If it is ( I can't remember ) then it was well under within the warning threshhold set by asus (The first thing I checked for was overheat even though I have an extra heavy duty gold fan).

 

[AMDPwred]

What case/PS are you using?

 

[Moosashi]

I have an ATX midtower case and a 300 watt ATX power supply. Also a heavy duty gold circular socket fan if it matters.

 

[AMDPwred]

But what brand PS? Is it generic?

 

[Moosashi]

I am not sure of the brand. I was going by the shipping document since I am at work. I would have to open the case to find out but it probably is generic. I bought the system as a barebones pre-build and did not ask for a particular brand of PS.