Windows 2000 HELP?

[Paindriver]

Is it too much to ask for a decent running OS after paying $299.00 ($262.00 my cost) for Windows 2000 Professional (full version)?
I guess so.....
Anyway, the problems started with all my drivers...it wouldn't take the original drivers for my Radeon, Soundblaster, and Motherboard. So i just downloaded the patches from each of the websites. Ok, that fixed everything...hopefully.

1) Now the problem is every so often my computer will lock up. I mean I can't even hit ctrl-alt-Del.??? And if for some odd reason ctrl-alt-Del does come up it shows no tasks running?

2) I get the "Black Screen of Death" :(
If i am surfing the net in IE 5...It will suddenly black out my monitor screen. I can't do nothing but hit the RESTART button....if i hit the POWER button nothing happens.?????(maybe IE 6 upgrade will help?)

3) I don't know if this is a problem but i can hear something hit my hardrive or one of my cd drives when i boot up or shutdown? When i say "hit" i mean make a loud sound...which didn't happen with win98SE.

I downloaded one patch from Microsoft for win2k. Maybe there is something else out there that i can download?
Any help would be appreciated.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Naturally, the old drivers are always useless. I've found for any system to run the best, be it 9X, or 2K, or XP, what I do is download and install the latest drivers for my motherboard first. Then, download and install the latest drivers for every device I have. Then run all the Windows Updates. There are a whole lot of windows updates for 2K. And sticking with quality motherboards with only the chipset that I like, and quality RAM.