Many thanks to Phil Parker, Barry Clark, Glenn Josephson and Dean Kukral
for replying to my message.  Kudos go to Phil and Glenn who nailed the problem.

I had two 64MB modules one 100MHz and one 133.  After replacing these with
one 128 MB module, the problem disappeared.

Curiously, I installed the two 64MB modules on the system I pulled the 128
MB ram from and it works fine.

Regards,
Hugh

>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:21:11 -0400
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: "Hugh A. Gale" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: How to diagnose...
>
>Hello:
>     My problem is, programs regularly crash and I now suspect a hardware
> problem.  Last year I installed Win98, and after repeated crashes, I
> backed off to Win95 thinking I had too many driver conflicts.  Recently I
> added a router, eliminating several of my drivers and the Win95
> environment was so corrupted every boot caused a registry error.
>    After a clean reinstall of Win98 and experiencing repeated crashes
> (for example yesterday after a clean boot, Netscape crashed, then IE
> crashed then PaintShop Pro crashed), I am suspecting a hardware bug.  I
> am convinced this is not a Win98 issue since I run the same apps on my
> laptop without the crashes.
>
>Question:  I would be grateful to anyone who could provide suggestions on
>how to diagnose this problem.  I tried DIAG but get a runtime error and
>DR. Hardware reports hardware correctly but I am looking for a method to
>perform a comprehensive test against the hardware for bugs.  I am thinking
>I may have a seldom accessed processor or system board glich.
>
>I build my system and it consists of:
>Win 98 SE
>AMD K6-2 333
>MS 5169 MB
>128 MB RAm
>Matrox MGA-G200 AGP (with latest drivers)
>Fujitsu 13GB HD
>Panisonic CDRW
>
>Many thanks,
>Hugh Gale

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