The local PC store has performed every conceivable test on my broken computer. With a new new motherboard and new new RAM, it works fine…except if they put in my 120MB hard drive where Windows XP lives. They cloned that drive to another and still get blue screens of death. Hence, my installation of XP is corrupt, possibly caused by the faulty memory they’d installed originally.

So, this afternoon I get my PC back with a new mobo and RAM, and with a reformatted drive with XP installed. And so, for at least the 4th time in the past ten days or so I will be spending 30+ hours setting up my work environment again.

Why do I have the suspicion that when I’m done it’s still going to work for 2 days (i.e., just enough time for me to be finishing up the re-insall) and then start crashing?

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