This is just a rant and not interesting at all. Be warned.

My PC is rubbish! The Hard Drive failed, I replaced it with a SATA drive, which meant I had to get a SATA card, then I got a new monitor that the video card wouldn’t drive, so I got a new video card and then the motherboard overheated, so I bought a new motherboard, CPU heatsink fan and memory, and this has never worked right for more than a month. I’ve been getting blue screens of death and loss of everything, the net has been almost useless because web searches only turn up hearsay from other people who have seen your same problem, not authoritative information on the actual bugs you are seeing. So I stripped out loads of hardware and pared it right back, cleaned all the contacts for the memory and video card, reassembled the system, and got a functioning PC back. It installed about 9 updates, which caused it to reboot 4 times, then last night I turned it on and it told me there was a fault on the disk and it wouldn’t boot.

This means that in the last 18 months the bloody thing hasn’t been working long enough to back up all my data from it!