Etylowy writes "Over the years I have repaired my own, family, and friends' PCs many, many times. While in most cases it turned out to be restoring system after malware/user/Windows made a mess, or simple cases of 'follow the smell of smoke and molten plastic,' there were some nasty ones where the computer mostly works. By 'mostly,' I mean: you can boot it up, it might even work for a while, but will crash way too often to blame it all on Microsoft — what do you do then? Once you strip it off any extra hardware (which with today's ...

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