It says unknown device in the device manegment.
Tried with the chipset drivers for intel850r it did´t
sulv it. I will seek for the solution til i drop.

conny-
Try going to the dell talk home and choose software, then win2k. There is an awful lot of good advise there. I have been frequenting it myself and awful lot, because I plan on installing win2k. So far, from what I have been reading, the unknown device, (you didnt state what kind of device the system is "calling it" or seeeing it as. That would help). may likely be the dell support button on your PC.

I have yet to install w2k, but I understand this will show up after install. Go to the w2k portion of dell talk that will help. It may also be your chipset driver, there are also posts about that there.

Hope this at least guides you in the right direction.

SNOWLEOPARD

Dimension 8100, P4@1.4GHz
256MB PC800 RDRAM
Windows ME
19in. P991 Trinitron Monitor
64MB DDR nVidia GeForce2 Ultra Graphics
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound
40GB Ultra ATA HD
12x DVD/ Samsung
12x8x32 CD-RW/ Sony
Harmon/Kardon HK-695 Speakers
Kensington Orbit Trackball
IEEE1394 Adapter
External 250 Zip
USB Dazzle Video Creator

When you receive your new PC it has the chipset drivers installed by Dell. When you re-install, Windows do not put these chipset drivers on, hence the unknown device. Install the Intel chipset drivers for your processor. You probably have them on the Dell resource CD.

David.

The machine was preinstalled with ME (no unknown device), wanted to try w2k before i baught it so i tried a friends OS and after installation of ME
the device was there, all other drivers installs ok