He actually was trying to talk me into trying linux on it, mainly cause windows had been crashing up bad on him(and I have been thinking about even before I mentioned it to him).

As for the XP deal... while I may not be big on MS.. I also ain't big on downloading it through torrent. I am willing to put 98 on it since he already had it(and I saw that... if he had had xp, I wouldn't mind using a torrent for it but meh.. I don't have 200-300$ to spot for it right now.. I may be able to spot him a new cheap mother board, however.

I am certian it is in right. I have set it several times. My dad has.. and even my freind has. However the motherboard came cheap(with the proc and mem) so I feared from the start that something might not be up to par.. though Data Eclipse told me everything worked.. so that still puts maybe the motherboard is somewhat loose.

The computer's purpose is email for connectivity, gaming for my freind, and multi-media for him and his dad.


As for 98 I do a fair amount of gaming(what I can with my specs anyways) and it actually works better for me then 2k, ME, 95, and even the XP my sisters have(it came on their comp). Course I do not really care for many of the newer games so my perspective is skewed. XP just eats up too many resources for my computer. Heck it seems to eat up too much on my sisters' computer... and thiers is almost as powerful as my freinds newer one.