Win Me isn't designed to be installed on such systems. Having 2GB of RAM
is probably the cause of your problem.

For details see MS KB 304943 - "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More
Than 1.5 GB of
RAM" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=304943).

Try reducing RAM to say 1GB and see if that helps however even then you
would need to limit the virtual cache as otherwise the system runs out of
upper memory address space. See KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error
Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912).
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows [2001-2006]



jeffareid wrote:

I'm trying to install windows on a newer system. I boot from the
Windows ME floppy disk, run setup from the cd-rom, but once the
system reboots, it just keeps rebooting, even when in safe mode, or
if I choose step by step and entery no to all questions. I see
there's something about AGP video cards, but this requires me to run
regedit, which I can't do since I can't get Windows ME to start up in
safe mode.

My hardwa

Intel 875 motherboard
Intel P4EE 3.4GHZ cpu
2GB Patriot 2-2-2-5 DDRAM
ATI Radeon X850 AGP video card
1 IDE hard drive, 30GB FAT 32 partition cleanly formated during
install 1 HP dvd60i dvd-writer - cd-rom drive