I think you've pretty well summed it up Mike - the devil is in the detail
although I think I did mention WinMe/motherboard incompatibility somewhere
in the thread. But once you went delving into VMWare and VPC - then being on
XPHome - I effectively wrote myself out of the script.

Mart


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
It's a shame that you didn't give more details of the new machine from the
start as that would have saved a lot of time for all concerned. Use VPC
if you want to need to run 9x software which won't run in Win95 or
Win98/Me compatibility mode on a modern OS (XP or Vista). If you need usb
support, not that that much old software uses usb, then you might need to
use VMWare instead of VPC.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



William B. Lurie wrote:

Mike (and Mart):
I think I just have to give up this quest.
I think you fellows have diagnosed every problem and I've
complied with all your corrections and I'm still not there.

About the vcache and 512M, I mentioned that I couldn't get
the line in system.ini to look proper (in my eyes), and that was
the last improvement I installed at your request.

The question of clock speed has elicited the following very
strong comment from Gary Terhune, who is another of the MVPs
who have been trying to guide me in this quest:
-------------------------------------------------------
I give up!

YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY CANNOT RUN ANY KIND OF WINDOWS 95, 98, 98SE, ME
or NT (maybe even 2000) ON THAT MACHINE! I can almost guarantee you
that. You need drivers and there are no such things. They've never
been written.