Chad Cooper wrote: >3> Pay the blood money to Microsoft and buy XP. XP will have all of the >drivers you need. If you want I will send you a copy of XP that does not >require registration (I know its wrong, but it fixes your problem.) The >alterative is cracking the case, and trying to figure out who makes each >card you don't have drivers for, downloading them, and hope that works. >A caveat to this is you do need a beefy computer for this. If you don't have >one, I would consider Windows 2000 instead. Otherwise, in the long run, XP >is by far the most stable product MS has done. It may even fix your CD-ROM >recording problems. > I would have to strongly disagree with this. My CD-ROM burning problems began when I installed XP Pro. I also lost my sound card which worked perfectly under Windows2000. XP has an extremely limited driver set available. I still haven't got proper drivers for the sound card, so I have lost the surround sound and other capabilities of the card even after I eventually got it working under XP. I'll play with it for another week or two yet, but the old format C command is the only future I see for my WinXP installation at this stage. It is no more stable (crashes every few days) than Win2000 in my experience , and I'll wait until there are more service packs and patches before trying it again. Properly patched and maintained, Windows2000 eats it alive. Even my Firewire, Video Editing, digital camera management (3 cameras all with different interfaces), Wireless networking and all the other fancy stuff XP is promoted for worked better under Windows2000 than under WinXP. Even the pretty login interface of XP stops as soon as you start to implement some security into your installation.
Cheers Russell C.
