[Fyron]

"Your comment about signed drivers is somewhat dated and sounds like 2K experience. With XP, signed drivers are tested by MS and seldom cause problems."

I have never noticed any difference with signed/unsigned driver reliability in XP than in 2k, on any box I have worked on. Microsoft just tests to see that they function. They can't test every possible configuration and every possible case. I suppose if you always stick with the basic mass market stuff, you wouldn't encounter as many troubles...

Vista will not make the driver issues any better. It will just create even more hassles for the little guys. Unless, of course, Microsoft is going to provide testing and signing for virtually free...

"Out of curiousity, what OS do you run IF?"

I run 2k for gaming needs. 98 is good for older hardware, but it doesn't handle 200 GB drives and 1 GB ram and such very well. Can't be bothered with all the bloat and hassles of XP for no net gain.