Hello,
I have always played it safe and ran Windows 95 or 98 with FMS. The word out in the "street" that the FMS will work also with ME, but what your telling me is that your having a hard time. I have a nice machine running XP and FMS does have support drivers for this Operating system. There are "PIC" type microprocessors that can attach to the COM port and work with FMS under Win ME/NT/XP you might want to search the internet. Those prices vary from about $ 35.99 to 75.00.
At this time there is no time line on when drivers are going to come out for that feature.
Happy flying.
Raymond Cervantes
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