UDaMan - 12:14 am on Jul 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have found that when hardware conflicts in 9x occur, often the easiest way (as long as you have all of your drivers) is to remove the PCI Bus from the device manager then do a reboot. When the machine reboots, you will be promted to reinstall all drivers for any plug and play hardware that you have. Normally the process can take as little as five minutes and can save a lot of hair-pulling (and an OS rebuild).

Personally, I would remove any pieces of hardware that are not necessary to boot windows and start adding things back one-by-one. If you have multiple RAM modules you should test them one at a time.

<added>You may want to look at the BIOS too, perhaps a reset and/or a flash update.</added>