Win98se installation problem on soyo via board

[blackhawk]

This is my fourth system and I've made lots of mistakes before but this has me stumped. This is my third install of the os. I fdisked, formatted and loaded & ran the os up to the installation of the via drivers, then the screen freezes.
Reboot and same so went to voodoo disk to do drivers but it freezes.
Same thing happened before but I got further along before too many freezes. Its a soyo v6be+ with and oc'd C2, 133 ram and an older quantum drive. Had cmos checksum errors several times so replaced battery, reseated memory & checked all cables & it seemed to go away.

Any direction to point me in? All components except mb were used by me before with no problem. Windows just seems to start slowing down when opening windows then freezes & can only recover with the reset switch. altctldel doesn't do a thing. Ram is set back and cpu is running at 100mz.

 

[Fardringle]

Try setting the CPU back to its default speed and get Windows and all of your software and drivers running properly. THEN go back and overclock the CPU again. It's possible that the new motherboard just doesn't like the speed you're trying to run the processor...

 

[blackhawk]

I could I guess but at the 100mz speed, everything is running on spec and it was previously running the same setup, different cpu.

 

[blackhawk]

Swapped out ram and cant even load any drivers now as it freezes as soon as I open a window to load a driver. Downloading hd scan utility now.

 

[RayEarth]

If you are using high quality or aleast name brand memory & windows installation doesn't lockup during the install but only after it, does it lockup on the very 1st thing you try to doing or does it let you install a few items before locking up? & hopefully you are only installing the via agp & chipset inf drivers & not the ide driver because that causes more problems on most systems & slows down hdd performance. If it lockups during the installation process, it's likely hardware related, most likely the motherboard, if it lockups the 1st time you get into windows after a successful install, try changing the processor with a standard pentium & not celeron.

 

[blackhawk]

Seemed to be an aureal vortex 1 sound card that was the problem. Swapped out or tested everything else but the mb and when I cleared cmos and swapped ram (micron crucial) I took out the sound card. Origonally it wasn't even in though as it took a while to find drivers so maybe it was a low mb battery. Anyway I'm very relieved as everything is running fine although my ram is swapped, crucial in the 112mz fsb and the micron cas 3 133 sticks in the P3 at 133. Now if only I could get my network up.