Blue Screen of Death :(
I’m starting to remember why I love Linux so much. Even though a lot of hardware doesn’t work on it, what does work actually WORKS!! I installed a PCI card to accomodate a 3rd hard drive (did you know motherboards can only support two hard drives? Me neither? 
). That’s when all my troubles began. The card works fine, but I am getting BSOD’s every few minutes. The lovely thing is, it seems to be a different error each time. Most of them are IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Looks like some kind of driver issue. Like I said, the IDE controller card works fine. I suspect it may be my Hammerfall HDSP sound card (expensive!). I’ve trolled RME’s message boards, and it looks like a driver rollback may be in order.
I’ve also heard that the physical placement of your PCI cards could cause problems. So now I’ll be looking forward to disconnecting nearly a dozen wires from my box, carrying it out the computer room, opening it up, and removing and replacing 4 PCI cards (2 slots for the Hammerfall, 1 for the IDE controller, 1 for the Hauppage TV card) in some kind of deranged musical chairs.
After I get this fixed, I am leaving Windows XP Pro the heck alone. Forget Vista. I don’t have the hardware for it anyway. I’m not about to replace my motherboard, because I doubt they make them with 4 PCI slots nowadays. Planned obsolescence. Now it’s all PCI express, PCIe, PCIx12 or whatever.
Eh. I’m keeping my box the way it is. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I wish I took that to heart, but I like to tinker. My motto appears to be “If it ain’t broke, break it! Then fix it!” 