Bubba

Well gunther, I am far from an expert, heck I'm not even a semi literate noob lol, but it's my understanding that you have fewer problems with the signed drivers. I had a ton of crashes from the start to finish and along the way learned about using just 1 stick of RAM, flashing the BIOS, and signed drivers. When I did it that way everything started working.

As far as cheap vista 64? Fry's sells what they cal an OEM version for half price. It's what computer builders use. The kicker is though that you get absolutely NO support from Microsoft. If you have a problem tough. Oh, they will answer any question for 60 bucks a phione call.......... it only take 2 or three phone calls though and you are past what the retail version costs. Also you can't upgrade it to anything else.