To be honest, my first recommendation would be to use XP or 2k rather than ME. ME is perhaps the *worst* OS Microsoft has made in many people's opinion. Very few of the IS people I know ever say anything good about it....
That said, assuming you really want ME (or don't have any options):
Do you know where the error is happening? (does it give you any clue to what has and hasn't loaded?) If not, in a situation like this, you need to simplify. Try removing non-essential components and installing with just the system, video, cd, and hd. After that add nics, soundcard, modems, adapters, etc. See if you can load just the basics. You may want to reformat and start "clean".
If simplified this much you *still* can't install, try swappingthe video card for a very basic PCI card (Matrox Millenium or something like that). At this point, if youre still struggling I'd check with the motherboard manufacturer for updated drivers etc. If THAT doesn't help, you may be down to swapping components until you hit the bad one (power supply, drive, ram, mb etc).
Good luck...hope this helps.
