Any Ideas? Win ME won't run with new processor.

[Boxxcar]

Bit difficult to explain this but will try to keep this short and to the point. Note: I'm in Germany and brother in KC. I've an ABit BH6 MB with a Celeron 300a overclocked to 450. This has been running fine ever since day one. Brother visits and surprises me with a spare Celeron 500 which he has overclocked to 850 at his home. BH6 needed new bios to accept faster Celeron (Long story) and that's been taken care of. Brother took my BH6 back to KC, installed new bios, installed Celeron 500, OC'd to 850 with no problems. (with Win 98SE installed) I now have MB back and when I install the Celeron 500, Windows won't run up. Doesn't matter if this is with bios defaults and running at normal processor speed or OC'd to 850. I have Win ME installed. That may be enough history. Does Win ME have something to do with my system not running up. Anything to do with the registry maybe? My PC boots, and when ME starts, I get the typical startup screens, my wallpaper, then screen goes black and Windows errors, resulting in system reset, etc, etc.
Any ideas?

 

[THUGSROOK]

just get rid of winME and be done with it.

 

[Anubis]

yea get rid of winme cause WinMe is suck.

 

[Pederv]

Did you save a listing of what your bios settings were before you upgraded the bios? It's possible that the current bios settings conflict with a peice of hardware. Try pulling all the cards except the video card.
What about the memory? Do you have more than one stick? One of the sticks may have died during the handling, try one stick at a time.

 

[Boxxcar]

Thanks for your input, as well as the others - I'm not impressed with ME either and I plan to dump WINME ASAP, but need to do a back up of all the personal stuff first.
As for your suggestions, I've tried removing all the cards except my video and I've got 320M RAM. The RAM is reported during boot so I'm assuming it is OK.

 

[Pederv]

The BIOS memory check, during startup, doesn't check the memory thuroughly. It is possible to have a bad stick, even when the BIOS memory check says the memory is OK.