Guess this lost my last post. In my house, I have a number of computers, all of which I built myself from components except for the Mac, of course. The Mac is running MacOS X Jaguar (10.2.x). Most are running WinXP Professional. The guest computer runs Win2K Pro. My son's computer runs Win98SE. The server runs Win2K Server.
Jaguar for the Mac is a very good OS, far better than its OS X predecessors, which lacked speed and connectivity with Windows networks. The current version only lacks drivers for older hardware.
I think it was Kaethel who opened up these computer-related threads to ask if people know anything about bugginess of XP. Every MS OS is buggy, but XP is fairly reliable I've found. Of course, manufacturers of hardware can easily provide a driver that can bring down the whole OS (drivers must run in ring 0, for those who understand Intel lingo) so a single bad one can do untold harm. The usual way I deal with a problem like this is to uninstall hardware or software (usually latest first) until the problem goes away.
In worst case scenarios, I reinstall the OS and add hardware one at a time until it destabilizes, then back out the offending hardware. Then I do the same with software packages, though those are less likely to cause system-wide reboots.
If reboots are a serious problem without BSOD's (Blue Screen of Death), turn off the option for rebooting automatically within the System Control Panel.
