Just recently, I have custom built AMD Athlon 700MhZ system. When I first installed windows 98 SE, and then the necessary files and drivers for my video card and sound card, weird occurences started to appear. When I install the liveware drivers for my sound blaster live, windows restarts and says that "windows has encountered an error in the system and will restart and fix the problem." This causes me to panic because windows will recover the lastest backup files, without saving the info on what the latest programs you installed in your system, which is harder to un-install because windows set to its default settings from the start. I have tried many and many ways to get around this problem, but have come to no solution---YET. I try to reformat my hard drive and install win98 SE, and then repeat the same steps, but over and over after i install the liveware drivers to the sound blaster live, there's always a system registry error. Also, I have gone into the bios and disabled the on-board sound, which is a K7M ASUS motherboard, and yes--I have the updated bios. To top it off, i get gameplay freezes in Unreal Tournament, the Sims, and sometimes when I install the Nocturne in my system, i get freezes when it installs during installation, which leaves me no choice but to press the restart button, because CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. Worst of all, i get those annoying blue screen messages that has occured fatal errors in some part of windows, and to that I have to resolve to a cold reboot with the restart button. Yes I know its a lot of things to bear, but I dont know what to do anymore. I just want to get this done with, so I can play my games.....its starting to get on my nerves that nothing works on my computer!!! Oh yea, here's the specs of my computer. Hope anyone can help. My email address is [email protected]>have a nice day to everyone....

make7up's specs to computer:
-AMD Athlon 700MHZ with 3dnow technology
-ATX case with antec 300W power supply
-K7M ASUS motherboard with Yamaha on-board sound(200 MHZ bus)
-ASUS AGP v6600 GeForce 256 Deluxe /w TV out
-Sound Blaster Live! /w LiveWare drivers 3.0
-Pioneer 40x by 10x DVD ROM
-256MB SDRAM cas 8E(double sided ram)
-NEC floppy drive
-Western Digital 7200 UTA66 13.6GB hard drive
-3 COM 56KWinmodem INT

I am going to change the heat sync fan for my CPU, because the brand is an AVID, and found out that this brand is NOT RECOMMENDED because this brand is only used for 500 and 600 MHZ athlons. I just wanted to see if any opinions would help me on the way. Other than that, i guess its working fine, for the moment. Thanks for your time and I hope, HOPE that someone will be of any assistance to this annoying problem. Again, thank you.