On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Mike Bresnahan wrote:

> I've had a history of stability problems with this box.  I built it from
> parts 2-3 years ago and it has been a constant source of headaches.  With a
> Diamond Viper v770 card in it, it rebooted spontanesously every so often -
> several times a day.  The reboots grew more frequent as the ambient
> temperature rose.  I read on the net that my motherboard, Asus P5-A, had
> some serious problems with the Diamond Viper v770.  Someone theorized that
> the V770 drew too much power.  I dropped a Voodoo5, which has its own power
> supply, in it and it became a lot more stable - no more spontaneous reboots,
> but still a very flakey Win98 box.  Most recently, I put a ATI Rage 128 Pro
> and at the same time clean installed Win98 on it.  Now it's in the worse
> shape ever. LOL

What size power supply do you have in this?  My experience with Diamond
has been just don't do it, especially woth AMD.  I've been told that
Diamond acts flaky on non-intel hardware.  I think you should look into a
bigger power supply and see if that helps out.

-Brian