Well, I haven't done the Mem test yet (thanks for that advice Jkkxx!) but I will soon, and to Physicist, yes, the Vaios have PCI slots; mine, being older has two in fact. My unit isn't capable of running XP, which is fine by me, I prefer ol' 98. I actually bought this laptop 2nd hand in China, I jus...

oh, and I so hoped that REACTOS could solve my OS probs! haha Ok, here is what happens. I am using an ISO copied CD onto a "clean" HD. wiped the HD beforehand and then had the system BIOS set to boot from the CD. The CD went fine up until the actual copying files process, where it snagged ...