Jo Ann, You've hit on the difference yourself without hurting my theory one bit. The difference is that yours came with ME preinstalled (and I think Intel was making the switch over to PIII CPUs at the same time). The rest of the world and I tried installing it on our well running 98 & 98SE systems because MS never pushed the idea that it might not work so well on older devices. I believe mine had a PII 350 in it with 128MB of SDRAM. The real telling part of it all is that Win2000 ran nearly as well as 98SE on it, but ME made it choke. Go figure. lol I still have that computer (with 512MB of RAM) and use Win2K for testing other (usually newer) system's networking capabilities. :O) Peace, G http://tinyurl.com/ypbuue "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo Ann Weaver" <bookworm54@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:06 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........ > GMan, > > I hate to blow your theory, but that was not the case. When I got it new, > my > mass produced IBM had a was definitely > not high end. I believe the CPU was like 667 mgh and I know it had only 64 > megs of RAM, preloaded with ME. I will admit it was a lot faster when I > added > another 128 stick, but it ran ok on 64 till I started putting more > programs > on it. > > Jo Ann --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------