>After I installed Windows ME I have this problems (I installed ME over W98 SE):
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>1-The machine hangs if I left running all night, usually it hangs after 3 or 4 hours, the only way to put it at work again is power it off and back on.
I've seen this caused by background processes firing off that are not ME compatible, or with disk drives that had the documented (and fixed) IDE drive bug wrt SCANDISK.
>2-Some vendors still doesn't have drivers for their equipment, to put a name Creative Labs is still promising drivers for the WebCam Go.
It's possible; I haven't had problems with my hardware, which is pretty varied, but it's definitely a possibility - it took a bit to get updated versions of DirectCD for my CD-RW drive, although version 3.01 did run even though it bitched. USB device support is definitely better, which was an active concern for me both here at home and for several clients.
>3-I needed to uninstall a PCI to Parallel card, not only because it stop working but it makes an annoying beep. If I go to the Control Panel->System, it has an (x), like if there is something wrong with it, but then it displays "this device is working properly", and "no conflicts"
I'd suspect that it didn't like sharing interrupts; moving it to a different slot or changing the PCI IRQ vector registers might fix the problem, but I don't know what card is involved.
>4-The problem with the clock reappeared
Haven't seen it here or at work, but it's possible.
>5-After I installed the VStudio.Net Beta, some programs started to work very slow (OK, games) although I'm not running VS.
The added Windows Components probably are doing this; if these are DOS-based games, I'd read the Optimizing and MS-DOS Program entry in the Help file, and the Resource Kit docs; the underpinnings of ME are not really DOS, and many settings that used to be made in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS have moved into INI files or the registry, and have to be set either using .REG files or via MSCONFIG.
I've found that as an AD client, a 256MB PIII-500 is very happy and stable compared to the same system under Win98SE. The port from SE went very smoothly, and this box didn't see as massive an improvement in system boot speed as newer HP boxes I've put up for clients with ME; ME running on a current motherboard starts up fast.
>My machine is old, I know, 3 years old. Its an AMD K6-2 with 64 Mb of RAM.
My ME box is not exactly a spring chicken, and it's a relatively complex environment - Asus P2B-S motherboard, 256MB RAM, 2 SCSI LVD disk drives, IDE DVD with decoder, IDE CD-RW, DDS tape drive, ATI VGA Wonder, NIC, 2 printers (1 parallel, 1 USB), SB Live!, and my MS Voice phone system on a COM port makes sharing IRQs a necessity, and it works with relatively few interventions (upgraded CD-RW software and refreshed the Server's AD info for it) and it has run without demanding reboots too often. It definitely has trouble with a few of the games I had, but they aren't a major issue for me.
