Mike,

Probably I'll go for a new machine soon. Rather than build one because
(apart from I can't necessarily hold delicate objects anymore without
dropping them) deals including a flat panel and a DVD-RW (and the fast CPU
and large RAM etc) are pretty hard to match bought seperately, at least it
seems to me.

But I don't want something I can't run a 9x OS on as a backup. Is it really
to the point where I'm probably out of luck now?

Maybe what I need is a case that accepts two motherboards (as opposed to two
computers). Is there such a thing that you know of? It'd be networking
within a single case I suppose.

Shane

Mike M wrote:
Why not ask your motherboard manufacturer for help since it is they
who say their mobo supports Win Me. You won't get any help from
Microsoft as Win Me is long out of full support (mid 2004) and also
out of extended support, where only critical security issues are
addressed, which ended in mid 2006.

What you seem to conveniently forget because it doesn't necessarily
fit your agenda is that Win 9x systems were designed in the 90s for
the hardware available at that time when a 400MHz cpu was fast, 256MB
of RAM unusual and drives larger than 40GB or so, rare. Today, of
course, such hardware could barely if at all run XP. Times change as
do operating systems and if you want to use modern hardware then you
need to run a more modern operating system that is more suited to the
hardware.
Ouch. I know prug&Prae is better, but is it going to be totally left
to that?

Some sort of disconnect here because my MOBO is compliant to multiple
OS, including the old ones.
It has SATA on board.
It is a SATA HDD.

Almost sounds like, if OS was not designed specifically with that in
mind, fagetaboutit.
And even if it was, if it don't work, we might fix it.
Or wait till next OS.
Or wait till 128bit.
Or gig-a-bit. You know what it is to be gigged-a-bit? ;-)