http://videosean.gotgeeks.com/i/Z_OptimusPrime/Koutech_RCM620.txt

I'm keeping track of this problem for my own good/purposes... might come on handy someday.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_20790258.html?qid=20790258#9715037

If you have never experienced ANY of the problems listed in that thread then it is my humble opinion that you don't really use your computer properly :P  I've had brushes with most of the issues being cried about in there but nothing so serious that _forced_ me to do a clean re-install of XP... and yet the specific problem I had today isn't detailed in there - which is basically summed up by this:  Insert Memory card = machine reset.  Not. Cool. At. All.

I think that once I'd reached the stuff about Intel 845 chipsets from Nero tech support I reached a breaking point.  That 845 chipset was probably also what caused a DVD burner I had in OptimusPrime to only make coasters out of blank CDs.  It burned DVDs just fine.  I even did a clean format and re-install trying to fix that problem before buying a new burner!  The new burner has yet to fail... 2 weeks and counting at least.

sarcasm
Windows Vista: it's going to be more of what you've come to love about XP!
/sarcasm