98SE constantly hangs on a new computer

[kartel]

Take a look at IRQ 11 its sharing video and network ect.

Make sure your BIOS is set up with assign irq for usb and vga also get rid of modem irq and serial ports you dont use diable them and if you have 2 network adapters and a onboard audio and some other brookstree thing.

Make sure that if you have onboard sound or video or lan like the via rhine and your not using them that they are disabled in the bios

pnp OS turned on and system power on for acpi

also make your agp apature size the same as your card and enable fastwrite

dont forget to go in safemode to remove the ghost drivers left by your changes and do a via chipset install to activate dma and agp 8x V4.56 should do