🚀 go-pugleaf

Here is my problem.  I am building a system for my father-in-law using
Soyo SY-5EHM motherboard and Stealth III card.  The boot up for Win98
halts while the screen gives windows icon accompnied by "Windows98"
lettering underneath.  (you know that section, that blue bar-like
thingie moves from left to right to tell you that there is a progress.
Well, that blue bar stops.  I waited for five min.)

As of now this computer consists of
1. Soyo SY-5EHM motherboard.
2. 3.5 inch floppy drive.
3. 2.3 gig ide hard drive.
4. Stealth III Xtream S540 AGP 32MB video card.
5. 32 MB PC100 RAM
6. Plug and Play Monitor.
7. AMD K-6/2 450MHz

Here are the things I have done.
1.  I have upgraded the bios for this motherboard. (and yes I followed
the direction)
2.  I have installed new agp driver, agp355.exe, for this board.(and yes
I followed the direction)
3.  I have installed new irq driver, irq13aw.exe, for this board.(and
yes I followed the direction)
4.  I have cleared cmos.  (the only time this card works is the first
boot after clearing cmos.  next boot, it hangs.  While working it gives,
IOR 03B0-03BB, IOR 03C0-03DF, Memory Range 000A0000-000AFFFF, Memory
Range 000B8000-000BFFFF)


The video card must be OK since it works after clearing cmos, only
during the first boot.  Is the video card just simply incompatable with
this AGP motherboard?

My wife has already told my father-in-law what he was getting for
Christmas.  and I understand that he is quite eager about this.  You
know how father-in-law can be. So Pleeeeese help me.

thanks

Jim