re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows Friday, April 10, 2009 at 8:13 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (21654 messages posted) What I have been doing for for couple years now with a new build, is to Smoke test the PC with a Live Linux CD like Puppy Linux first. Will do some Web surfing for a Couple Hours, and see if any problems pop up. It is a good way to test Hardware since it only takes a couple Minutes to be up and running without actually installing anything. My first guess is your Hardware itself can probably not run Windows ME to start with, you have to much Ram, a CPU that is rated faster then what a Windows 9x OS can run reliably, also Windows ME can not address all 250 gigs without risk of data loss, the max safe partition size would be 137 gigs. Since the Motherboard uses ddr2 Ram it is pretty new, and that means Windows ME won't have many critical Motherboard Drivers for smooth sailing. Probably a waste of time to try sorting out all the Problem with Windows ME anyway. If you want to use Windows with the Hardware it should be at least XP would be my best guess. Written in response to: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Friday, April 10, 2009 at 6:19 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 6:19 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:13 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:15 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:37 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:50 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Steve: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 8:55 pm) re: Built new pc; will not boot to Windows (Barry: Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 9:10 pm) Hardware compatible with Windows 9x (Ed: Sun, Apr 12, 2009, 10:25 am) re: Hardware compatible with Windows 9x (DanTheMan: Tue, Apr 14, 2009, 2:37 am) re: Another Forum for older Windows OSes (Kiwi: Mon, May 25, 2009, 2:25 am) re: Another Forum for older Windows OSes (Kiwi: Wed, May 27, 2009, 10:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum