Well, at least upgrade to Windows 2000, then.

I've used AMD chips since the 200MX and have to agree with the above -- the motherboard and RAM will make a difference, but combine cheap ones with Win98 and "pray while you play".

I now have an Asus board with an AMD 1.4 and 512K RAM, NVidia GEForce2 MX/MX4 running Windows 2000 without a problem. In fact, it's the most stable machine I've ever had, AFTER I upgraded from Win98 to Win2K. (although World Builder seems to prefer Win98 over Win2K)

The machine I'm typing on however, (I have two) is the AMD 200 MX with the FIC board and 256K RAM. I've had several video cards in this machine over the years from the cheap to the not so cheap, every OS except XP (now also using Win2K) and I have never found anything to be stable on it. I know it's an outdated CPU but the point is, we bought two identical machines like this several years ago, both for different purposes, and neither one has ever been stable. We tried BIOS settings, different RAM, double checked the voltage settings, jumpers, etc, but no reliability. With Win2K on them now they are less likey to crash or have wacky errors than they did with Win98, though.

I know several people with the same or similar Asus/AMD/NVidia combination that are more than pleased with performance especially under Win2K.