Greetings and welcome to my blog, Greg!

I haven’t tried installing XP on this particular machine. My suspicion is that it would work (I.E.: that the problems with standby and the ASUS/ATI RAID resulting in massive disk corruption would not occur on XP), particularly if I used the 32 bit version of XP. I should probably give it a try, though.

I also haven’t tried the 32 bit version of Vista. Many of the problems I’ve encountered seem to originate with the combination of the 64 bit address space and 4 GB of RAM as much as with Vista itself. It would be interesting to see if even simply changing to the 32 bit version of Vista resolved the standby disk corruption problem.

I like Vista. But it seems that a lot of the hardware developers really have had a hard time making their drivers work well with it, particularly with the 64 bit version (which is what I’m using). When I look at the Asus and ATI drivers for Vista, specifically the Southbridge (SB600) drivers for ATI’s RAID controller, I see that they haven’t been updated since January. This suggests to me that they aren’t really putting much effort into dealing with the problems, either.