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To: crazyoldman who wrote (94870)	2/24/2000 10:54:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1571087

On whether the first letter or the rest of Wintel is responsible, I lean toward the W. If you're talking Win9x, my experience is it gets bit rot, a new clean system runs a lot better than one that's been around for a while. Which, in turn, I pin on the somewhat fragile FAT file system. A true story: I built a computer for my brother in law, Win98, it was starting to hang, with increasing frequency. I kept promising to do the reformat, reinstall drill but I have an aversion there, it's sort of tedious figuring out what to save and how to save it. Another relative with some experience tried to help them out with the usual less drastic drills, checking the disks and defragging, but that would hang too, reproducibly, we all started thinking disk failure, bad sectors, whatever. So I dug up the oem (WD) disk diagnostics software, did a low level check, it was fine, 100% clean. Bit the bullet, reformatted, reinstalled, and it's been cool since then, knock on wood. Microsoft blames vendor drivers and third party software, but I don't understand how that would explain things deteriorating over time, without some OS support. Intel has its errata, but I don't think it has near as many as Microsoft has "known issues". NT holds up a lot better in my experience. On Win9x, I'd give it some time before I credited the Athlon with superior stability there, though it is of course superior in other ways <vbg>. Cheers, Dan.