athalon xp 2600 and windows xp

Hello,
Does anyone have any problems with windows xp working with amd motherboards ?
I have an AMD athalon xp 2600 that I recently installed along with more memory in my computer which previously had an AMD 1ghz cpu
I am dual booting windows 98 and xp and ever since I installed xp I am having problems with crashes and blue screens.
Even during installation at random places it just freezes so I have to reboot
Is it just a bad motherboard or does it have something to do with the memory ?
Using windows 98 with the same motherboard I don't have any problems with it
The hard drive I believe is fine since it was working with the previous motherboard without crashing it was just very slow booting (1 minute) so that's why I changed the motherboard