My Vista box keeps giving me grief. I pulled a DVB-T card and DVD drive out and things seem more stable but when I look at the performance ratings the OS is reporting I’m wondering if the shiny new 360 gig drive I bought should be put into service with a fresh install. It’s always hard to know weather to pull the pin and start from scratch or not. I’m looking forward to building a [...]

Sigh… the last few days have not been very happy computing ones… my Vista box decided to start to pack up with the occasional blue screen of death flashing up. I’ve since pulled some of the hardware out (even though it’s been there for months) and I’m now taking a wait and see approach to the computer. I’d rather avoid reinstalling the OS from scratch but if I have to I will sub in a [...]