Horrible system stability

[Lewis]

Hi fellas, I recently put a new motherboard and video card in system, reformated, and reinstalled windows 98. Unfortunatly, I now have truely crappy stability, I get blue screens of death, automatic restarts, and all kinds of errors. Ive even had it freek out on me while restarting, it just started beeping up a storm.

Anyway, I am wondering exactly how I could go about fixing this problem.

Would a low level format be a sure fire fix?

If so, could you be so gracious as to detail the steps for me briefly?

Thanks alot in advance.

Kind Regards,
Lewis

[Dodge]

What kind of Mother Board did you put in? What kind of Bios did it have?

Also, how many beeps did you get? i.e. 1 long, 2 short etc....


Information like that can really help in determining what the problem could be.


I do NOT recomend you trying a Low Level Format. It can be dangerous if not done correctly....

[Lewis]

Its a GIGABYTE technology motherboard, no product name or anything on it. I suppose its fairly generic. Anywho, I only get one short beep on startup, so all is well in that department.

About the bios, well, I dont rightly know.

I suppose Ill check out GIGABYTE's website and see if I can flash it or soemthing, do you think that would help?

Also, I was under the impression that a low level format was alot like a high level format, except you had to repartition the disk, is this not correct?

Thanks for the help so far dodge, hope to hear a reply from you soon!

Kind Regards,
Lewis