Most problems with PCs that I see aren't OS related, they are caused by the customer (Spyware, virus, customer "cleaning" their HD.) And as for XP being not being as vulnerable to customer mistakes or easier to fix, I DON'T BUY IT.
Win 9x at least you could get into DOS if you needed to restore files or fix the registry.
You really don't have the same amount of control of XP. (And System Restore for XP, is a POS. I see more systems come in with problems AFTER someone ran System Restore.)
That actually is one of the boards in particular I dislike.:)
The company I work for sold these boards, and we found out they are very demanding on power supplies. If you have a cheap PS they are VERY unstable. (And because people want a cheap MB, they aren't going to spring for a good PS)
I'm a little tired of hearing that Intel CPUs are more stable than AMD CPUs. Having used a combination of both for over ten years, I'd have to say there isn't much difference in reliability.
However, if you put a good chip on a cheap motherboard (PC Chips, ECS, etc..), use cheap memory, or overclock it without proper cooling it's going to be unstable no matter what kind of CPU it is.
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Win 9x at least you could get into DOS if you needed to restore files or fix the registry. You really don't have the same amount of control of XP. (And System Restore for XP, is a POS. I see more systems come in with problems AFTER someone ran System Restore.)
That actually is one of the boards in particular I dislike. :)
The company I work for sold these boards, and we found out they are very demanding on power supplies. If you have a cheap PS they are VERY unstable. (And because people want a cheap MB, they aren't going to spring for a good PS)
I'm a little tired of hearing that Intel CPUs are more stable than AMD CPUs. Having used a combination of both for over ten years, I'd have to say there isn't much difference in reliability.
However, if you put a good chip on a cheap motherboard (PC Chips, ECS, etc..), use cheap memory, or overclock it without proper cooling it's going to be unstable no matter what kind of CPU it is.