Given our experiences with Win98 and Win98SE, we upgraded all our systems
to Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro. We had more than 2 dozen identical machines
preinstalled with Win98SE. More than a third of them experienced Windows
"Shutdown" problems. After trying every software tweak published on the
net, replacing motherboards, NIC cards, video cards, memory chips (all at
the vendor's expense) without ever resolving these problems, we
reformatted the hard drives of all those machines with Windows 2000
Pro. Interestingly enough, the problems never occurred again. This
experience led me to conclude that Windows 98SE (in particular) was one of
Microsoft's least stable OSes.
That Insightful considers this particular problem intractable for Win98
comes as no surprise.
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