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Old February 3rd 09, 04:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Default Motherboard recomendations, solutions or ideas

Any recommendations or sites that might help me get up to speed

IMO the very best thing you could do for your wife unless you really hate
her is to forget about Win Me and instead install a more modern operating
system such as perhaps XP. Win Me is an old system designed for old
hardware. When Win Me was released processors were only just reaching
1GHz (with most less than that) and installed RAM was typically 128MB if
not 64MB.
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Mike Maltby



default wrote:

I bought a bare bones recently and neglected to see if there were
windows ME drivers with it. I just got a new mobo a year ago for my
system and encountered no problems.

I did find some ATI drives to try . . but want to have a "plan B" in
case this doesn't work out. The computer is for my wife, we only see
each other twice a month, so I want to get it solved quickly in case
these drivers I found won't work.

MOBO: ECS RC410-M LGA775 DDR2 PCIe x16 SATA HP
MOBO Chipset: ATI RC410 and ATI IXP450 (onboard video, sound, usb,
lan, etc.)
Made for HP with their PN 51885464 (nothing but W2K and XP Vista
drivers on the HP sites)
CPU: Intel Celeron D 347 3.06Ghz LGA775 533
Memory: 512mb Pc2 5300 667mhz Ddr-2 Dual Channel

I did get it up and running slightly with really poor graphics and
windows insisting on trying to load a fire wire driver then bombing
each time it did. I didn't have the heart to try loading the drivers
I found because I'm not sure I could reverse the process if they don't
work out, and it would leave her without a 'puter for two weeks.

This week I have the beast here with me so will try to put it in my
case and load ME and configure it with a spare drive I have laying
around.

Any recommendations or sites that might help me get up to speed on
this would be appreciated or failing all that, a recommendation of a
suitable motherboard that uses the same processor and memory. (and
she needs an IDE/ATA connector or two)