which system work best with winXP??

[michee]

I had serious problems with my PC

I bought this about a year ago:

Tyan Trinity KT-A (S2390B) With ATX-VIA Apollo KT133A chipset
AMD Duron 800Mhz CPU
Quantum 40G ATA-100E-IDE 7200 rpm
128M PC-133 SDRAM
250W power surpply
Toshiba 16x DVD E-IDE
Teac 12x10x32 E-IDE CD-RW
Asus 7100 Gf2 MX TV 32M
Aver TV Tuner
Panasonic 1.44M Floppy Drive
Creative Lab Value V.4830 PCI
OS: win98 se

This Computer always "freeze" at the middle of works.... it happened to all kinds of programs, such as winamp, microsoft word, icq, easy cd creator, IE, media player...... or even to the disk defragmenter and the scanner....

People always tell me that I am very likely to have problems with the power surpply, so I got a better one:

ATX Enermax P-4 365W Grade-A Dual Fan

It didn't solve the problem, so I add a ram (256M PC-133 SDRAM), replace the hard drive (IBM 80G IDE-HDD 7200 rpm), and do a clean installation of Windows XP HOME ED... then... the situation becomes worse... I cannot install the applications I need (like office 97, easy cd creator 4.02e, norton antivirus 2003...), the setup wizard always tell me that the required files are corrupted or missing, and reboot my computer... sometimes I cannot come back into the winXP, so I have to re-build the whole thing again.

Rebooting also happens when I am burning CD, or copying files from a CD to the hard drive, as well as I try to do the windows updates. SP1 inistallation corrupted the windows all the times.


I have no idea of what to do now...
Could it be motherboard or CPU's Problems??
Is Tyan Trinity KT-A (S2390B) too old for winXP??
Or could someone tell me which system work best (more stable)with winXP??

[NBR]

well ill put it this way get a ABIT or ASUS motherboard that is fairly new and u wont have anyproblems

they are some of tha best motherboards u can buy

also it might be possible that tha CPU might be getting to hot and that might cause ya lockups all tha time

are u sure it is running cool enough?

also did you try using windows 98/me on that pc? if so, and it works, then it has to be a windows xp issue

[michee]

Thx~

oh~ I just format my com again, and using only win98se now.... have no problem installing those applications I mention above... so..... should I suspected that winXP have conflicts with my system??

How about getting ABIT kX7-333 or ASUS A7V-333 w/ AMD Athlon XP 1700+ ?? Does anyone have these, and have no problem using winXP home ed??

Forget to mention... I did add another fan under my hard drive disk (front-bottom of tower case) when I changed my power supply..... so the air can flow in and out..... having 3 fans... I guess cpu should be ok~

[NBR]

yes, those motherboards will be fine with windows xp

cause like i said if they are fairly new (which them are) it wont have any problems with windows xp