I've seen variations of this problem posted in the past. To date I've yet to
see a firm work around for this problem posted by anyone anywhere! Not
trying to be funny but have you thought about getting another CPU with XPHome
Edition pre-installed?

Lomax wrote:
Updating from ME to XP home on 2000 Gateway 850MHz , 384MB RAM , using AMD
Athlon Processor 2000 . Installing windows portion of process "Hangs" with 41
minutes remaining. Retried several times after rebooting, unistalling ME.
Any ideas?

My computer specs:
Processor
AMD Athlon, 850 MHz
100MHz external bus

BIOS
American Megatrends Inc. 0AASNP05 07/23/1999

Memory
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384MB physical
61% free resources
3 memory slots, 0 free (128+128+128)

Video
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Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000
Screen Area/Colors: 1280x1024 pixels, 16 million colors
Monitor: EV700
Monitor: Default Monitor

Drives
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C:\ (FAT32) 19459MB total, 17882MB free
D:\ CD-ROM/CD-RW or DVD Drive

Network and Modem
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(net) Microsoft Dial-Up Adapter
(net) 3Com 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-
TX)

Operating System
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Windows Me (Windows Me 4.90.3000 )
Original setup date: 7/17/2000
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904
SWAP FILE DISABLED
File cache managed by Windows

Browser
MSIE 6.0; Win 9x 4.90
Proxy: No proxy set
HTTP level: direct 1.1, proxy 1.0
Scripting version: 5.6.0.6626