Yep, I got an update a few days ago (same day that a lot of XP machines were updated). When the update finished, Vista rebooted the machine without prompting first, which is not typical. Since then I have not been able to log into Vista for more than a few seconds to minutes. I immediately blamed MS - then noticed that the same thing happened while booting from the Vista DVD. I thought that was strange and went into my BIOS - which the machine flaked again within 30 seconds. This seemed to point to a hardware issue instead of Vista as I couldn't wrap my head around a Vista update causing my machine to be this unstable while not even in Vista.
But after seeing this I have to wonder....
They are MUCH more scratch-resistant than vinyl, though - which I think was the point at the time. But yeah, they are far less indestructible than first advertised.
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Yeah, I definitely think it's hardware. The summary confused me (and of course I didn't rtfa).
Yep, I got an update a few days ago (same day that a lot of XP machines were updated). When the update finished, Vista rebooted the machine without prompting first, which is not typical. Since then I have not been able to log into Vista for more than a few seconds to minutes. I immediately blamed MS - then noticed that the same thing happened while booting from the Vista DVD. I thought that was strange and went into my BIOS - which the machine flaked again within 30 seconds. This seemed to point to a hardware issue instead of Vista as I couldn't wrap my head around a Vista update causing my machine to be this unstable while not even in Vista. But after seeing this I have to wonder....
They are MUCH more scratch-resistant than vinyl, though - which I think was the point at the time. But yeah, they are far less indestructible than first advertised.