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The first thing I would look at is check to see if your CD is clean and not scratched. Run a cd cleaning disk in the drive. Some cd roms are very sensitive to surface defects on the disk, so you might even try swapping cd drives in your pc's. If the cd appears dirty, use a cd disk cleaner or try pouring a little alcohol on the disk and gently rub the surface with a small bit of CLEAN soft cotton cloth, such as a well worn undershirt etc. DO NOT use kleenex or similar products as this can scratch the disk surface wven worse. Rub the disk in a motion from center to outside edge, not in a circular motion around the disk. rince under cool water of a faucet and pat dry.
IF the cd is scratched badly, sometimes you can polish out those areas with toothpaste, but be careful to not over do it. Then rinse and dry as stated above.
If you have bad ram it should show up in the ram test at boot up,and most modern systems will lock up at this point if bad ram is detected. Also you can always remove your ram strips one at a time and see if the problem goes away, as its unlkely all your ram strips went bad at the same time.
Lastly your message said you had pc100 ram and were going to pc133. the pc133 should run at the slower clock speed ok but do not mix pc133 with pc100. That will cause problems also.
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I had a very similar problem last time I built a box. I bought a new motherboard, cpu, ram, video card and upgraded. I was running Win2K at the time, It would startup to the point where it allowed you to hit F8, soon after that the screen would go blank. Make a long story short, my power supply didnt have enough juice and I had to get a new one.250watt, to a 350 watt. Hope this may have helped
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With your current configuration you must not have problems.The supply is enough powerfull. Check yor CPU FAN !!! Duron 1.3 processors need very powerfull FAN-s to work properly. And something else ... check in your BIOS if VirusProtection is on or off. It must be OFF durring the installation of Win 98, then tou can set it ON if you want. Cause i suppose that the problem is the FAN if you use your old FAN it can be weak for that processor. If you have new one it's possible that you need MORE powerfull. Without seeing your machine i cannot say precisely, but that's what I can tell to you :) I hope that I hellped. Greetings from Bulgaria :)
