[RESOLVED] Problem with Athlon 700Mhz

Im having with my Athlon 700MhZ! When I finished installing Windows 98 SE, and installed the drivers for my video card, everything goes fine. But when Im finished installing my sound card and restart my computer, a fatal execption occured at xxxx:xxxxxxxx. It doesn't restart and stalls. I turn it off and turned it on after 10 seconds. Windows boots up and updates its settings, and then another message pops up saying that Windows Registry checker has encountered a problem and will fix it for you. It then reboots and boots up in safe mode. But certain programs that I install like Office 2000, crashes during the installation and messes up my computer. What is the problem??? Here are the specs of my computer.

Athlon 700MHZ
K7M ASUS 751 chipset
Sound Blaster Live!X-Gamer
ASUS 6600 AGP 32MB DELUXE
192.0MB RAM(Micron)
10X Pioneer DVD ROM 40X read
3COM WINMODEM 56K PCI
Western Digital 7200RPM 13.6GB ATA66
NEC Floppy Drive

Impressive system!!!!
Why oh why did you put a WinModem in a system like that??????????????
Are there 2000 specific drivers for your Gamer?

What Noel said. Seriously, it sounds like an IRQ/PCI Steering problem to me. Make sure you have the absolute latest BIOS and Chipset drivers for your ASUS board.
If that doesnt' work, toss the Winmodem (first), then remove all your cards and start one by one installing until you either run out of cards or you lock up, whereupon you'll have identified the offending card.
Also, just swapping physical locations of PCI cards(moving them to a different slot order) can solve problems. Good luck.
oh, and by the way, if you start moving cards, save yourself the headache down the road and reformat your boot drive and re-install Win on a clean drive.

I can only think of two things that might be causing you problem.

1. The Asus motherboard was not designed for Athlon Chips running faster than 550 MHz. You can find this info on the AMD Recommended motherboards page at the AMD Site

2. You are having an IRQ Problems with the card try assining it a different IRQ

Hope this helps
Ron

Agree with advise given but, I also have found on some boards if the USB device is enabled during initial install of win98 se this problem occurs. However if the usb device is disabled during install, then enabled after all other devices are installed the problem never comes up. Don't ask me why (I'm not sure) but twice now It's worked on systems I've worked on.