Invisible wrote:

> 
> FWIW, my dad bought me a brand new laptop as a graduation present. At 
> the time, XP was still quite new. The laptop crashed within 14 SECONDS 
> of being turned on for the very first time. This was not an isolated 
> event either.
> 

Sounds a lot like the crapware they load on the computers before they're 
shipped out. The XP updates may have overwritten a driver, or added 
stability fixes for known third party issues.

I used to do support for Compaq a long time ago. Now I don't trust 
bundled software. ;)

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