Win ME + ATI Xpert 2000 = Problems?!?

[abjr65ca]

Hi there,

SYSTEM: Motherboard FIC KA-6130, CPU Intel Slot 1 P3 450MHz, Video Card ATI Xpert 2000 Rage 128GL AGP., Windows ME.

Here's the problem

The motherboard was flashed with the latest BIOS upgrade, "QA4163". When it was flashed, the video card was an old ATI 8meg PCI. No problem after the flash other than; in system device, the "VIA TECH VT82C596 PCI to ISA Bridge" had an error, "Windows could not load the driver for this device because the computer is reporting (2) two ISAPNP.VXD bus type. (code 2)". The computer was running fine otherwise.
Installed the NEW VidCard ATI Xpert 2000 Rage 128GL AGP. Now every time the computer is shut down to cold (5 minutes or more), when rebooting, it will only recognize the video card as an ordinary PCI VGA card with only 16 colors and 800 x 480 resolution. After one or two "Start, Shut down, Restart" it finally recognize the card with all its settings.
Downloaded the newest drivers from ATI, but no change.
Tried a clean install of Win 98SE, which recognized it on installed, but as soon as the PC was shut down cold and rebooted the same problems occur, and the "PCI to ISA Bridge" problem was gone.
Tried a clean install of Win XP Pro, which recognized it on installed, and solved the problem; BUT too many software and other devices not working with XP.
Tried a clean install of Win ME, which recognized it on installed, but as soon as the PC was shut down cold and rebooted the same problems occur.
Read somewhere about extracting the following drivers, "vdd.vxd, vflatd.vxd, ios.vxd, ntkern.vxd, vcomm.vxd, vmouse.vxd" from the WinME CD to the C:\Windows\System and Windows\System\VMM32, but still no change.

One way to solve the problem is to keep the computer running all the time and putting it in stand-by mode when knot in use, but it is still not fixed properly.

Help Please,