I never had data corrupion with my several via boards... My first AMD was a 80386, then I skipped the 486-geneation with a P133, afer that the great K6-2 times began... K6-2 300 was replaced later with my beloved K6-III 400 beating every higher clocked celeron around (compared Q3Arena and such, using a Riva TNT) - dunno if that gem was able to beat these great P2-400, but it performed similarly well nevertheless.

Win98 SE was very stable for me BTW, but everything went crap w/ WinME.