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In article <nfVC3.12875$1E2.89338@ozemail.com.au>, 
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed@usa.net> wrote:
>Unfortunately for you, it can be a symptom that your hardware has
>a problem. A Win98 install is working the system rather harder than
>most people use their PCs, so it can show up hardware problems
>that have been lurking since before the reinstall.

I've often seen this given as an explanation why things fall over
during an install of Windows [going back to 3.0].  While it may well be 
true, to the uninitiated it does have a ring of "shark infested seas"
and "a lucrative new contract" as the tabloids invariably phrase these
things to fill up a column-inch or two.

So, just what *is* Windows doing that stresses everything so much?
Is it just that it tries *everything* in the process, so any weakness
at all will show up?  As a corollary, I assume the same weakness would
cause problems if you ever got round to actually needing that "bit" in
the normal course of work?  (That is, it's not the "stress" so much as
simply a one-off referencing of a bad part of the system.)

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au