AMD Atthlon 64 supported by ME ?

Dietrich Stöckl · External Since: May 28, 2007 Posts: 2

Hello folks,

does anybody of you now whether Win ME is able to run on
AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors?
Many thanks in advance for your answes,

Dietrich

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

May I ask why you would want to do this? Your first problem would be to
find a suitable motherboard that has Win Me drivers, I know of none but
haven't looked very far. Increasingly less and less recent motherboards
include drivers for use with discontinued Win 9x operating systems such as
Win Me.

Depending on why you want to run Win Me on such a box you could always do
what I am doing and that is to run Win Me in a virtual machine on such a
box. I'm using Microsoft's VPC and using this have Win Me running on both
an AMD 64 3200+ and an AMD 64x2 4400+. The underlying operating system on
those boxes is however XP Pro SP2.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows
mike.maltby RemoveThis @gmail.com

Dietrich Stöckl <d_stoeckl RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> does anybody of you now whether Win ME is able to run on
> AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors?
> Many thanks in advance for your answes,

Dietrich Stöckl · External Since: May 28, 2007 Posts: 2

Hello Mike,

first of all I want to thank you for your quick response!
The reason is very simple: I want to avoid to buy XP - nothing else.
What you have written in your response to my posting, has
convinced - me more or less. I will leave ME behind and take XP.

Dietrich

"Mike M" <No_Spam.RemoveThis@Corned_Beef.Only> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> May I ask why you would want to do this? Your first problem would be to
> find a suitable motherboard that has Win Me drivers, I know of none but
> haven't looked very far. Increasingly less and less recent motherboards
> include drivers for use with discontinued Win 9x operating systems such as
> Win Me.
>
> Depending on why you want to run Win Me on such a box you could always do
> what I am doing and that is to run Win Me in a virtual machine on such a
> box. I'm using Microsoft's VPC and using this have Win Me running on both
> an AMD 64 3200+ and an AMD 64x2 4400+. The underlying operating system on
> those boxes is however XP Pro SP2.
> --
> Mike Maltby
> MS-MVP Windows
> mike.maltby.RemoveThis@gmail.com
>
>
> Dietrich Stöckl <d_stoeckl.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> does anybody of you now whether Win ME is able to run on
>> AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors?
>> Many thanks in advance for your answes,
>

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

Dietrich,

I don't think that you will go wrong by installing XP. XP is a far more
stable and solid operating system than Win Me with the one of main reasons
for someone wanting to run Win Me being that they have software that only
runs on Win 9x operating systems in which case it is more likely that they
need Win 98SE as it has real mode which was removed or rather hidden in
Win Me. The remaining Win Me users tend to be using legacy hardware that
is not particularly suited to running XP.

I hope all goes well,
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows
mike.maltby.TakeThisOut@gmail.com

Dietrich Stöckl <d_stoeckl.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Mike,
>
> first of all I want to thank you for your quick response!
> The reason is very simple: I want to avoid to buy XP - nothing else.
> What you have written in your response to my posting, has
> convinced - me more or less. I will leave ME behind and take XP.