I had numerous and repeated lockups on my pc from the day I got it, ~1yr ago. I had Win98SE with 256MB ram.
I downloaded a program called Cacheman which helped a LOT. There are settings for 95/98/ME
You may want to try it.
Originally posted by RT and his SE:
Athlon's also produce great amounts of heat so if you CPU fan didn't work your CPU would have burned up in about 5 min.
One more reason to not use AMD. Flame away !!!
Good luck.