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Glad it worked.

I struggled with an install of WinXP Pro here a while back. My computer is a relic and the tired old CD-ROM drive didn't much like the new XP CD, so I was reading off of my Iomega USB CD-RW drive. But then the XP install would hang because it didn't like some of the hardware in this old PC, including the USB 2.0 card that makes the CD work.

Sometimes one has to be creative mucking around with old junk, so I found an old hard drive laying around and I hooked it up as a slave and copied the CD on to it, pulled the USB card out, and installed XP off the old hard drive lickety-split. Then installed the USB card and Iomega drivers and discovered a conflict with the old ISA Soundblaster card that seemingly didn't matter to Win98, but sure as heck was a big deal to XP. So I pulled the Soundblaster, installed the USB card and Iomega drivers again, then forced an install of the Soundblaster to share an IRQ with the disabled USB 1.0 port on the motherboard, fiddled with the CMOS setup to make work with a stick of PC-100 that had always worked fine with Win98 but suddenly decided it no longer liked the default settings, and all is hunky-dory. Spent about three days worth of my spare time (more or less) getting up and running with XP Pro.

And that was all just to try it, because I was sure as heck I wasn't going to like it and would ultimately revert back to Win2K or something like that. Was I ever wrong. After all the trouble, XP is working slicker than snot here, and it has features I don't know how I ever lived without. And since May when I installed it my computer has locked up exactly one time. I must say I am pleasantly surprised.

Dave in Eugene