i got Windows 2000 running as my main OS now on my computer... it works with pretty much all my hardware.
i just got a CD burner too like two days ago. a Yamaha 4x 4x 16x. its SCSI too, so i had to get me one of them SCSI cards. :)
since i got a burner now, i had to get some software. the burner came with Easy CD Creator 3.5, which seems nice. i downloaded Nero from www.ahead.de, its cool too, plus it lets me burn 700 megs to a cd and lets me make music CDs with my MP3s.
there was a bug with Nero though too. when i right-clicked on my cd-burner or dvd-rom, a window would pop up and say
"For volume mounting a needed driver could not be found or has the wrong version. Please run installer to get all files."
that message made little sense to me. :)-~ i did find out others had that error message too. i found out how to fix it after messing around in the registry for a few minutes.
if you have Nero, and are getting that error message, delete this key from your registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2E9D3540-211C-11d0-A5F2-00A0248C37BE}
that should make the message go away.