It's the nature of computers. They fuck up and need to have the OS reloaded periodically. I've killed every flavor of windows beyond hope of salvation, along with OS X (this is not the first time), Linux, probably a few others at some point. It's just the price you pay for being a power user who installs, upgrades, changes, adds and removes lots of different software and hardware.
Because I've learned when to give up, have a stiff drink and go to bed. so, my $5,000 workstation needs to go in for service only a year after I got it. Not worth losing sleep over. Besides, I have AppleCare. For two more years, it's their problem to fix (now that I know it's not a software problem), not mine.
Never had to "reload the OS periodically" on any of the Unix systems [ over 700 systems so it's a good statistical sample ] I used to work on. Yes, it may need to be brought down [ or shut itself down ] for a hardware issue, like a disk not working, but never because the OS got fucked up and needed to be reloaded.
Never got a GSOD or ASOD [ Unix's BSOD ] either.... oh wait, that's because Unix DOESN'T HAVE ONE. :p
The last thing that I changed was adding a couple of SATA disks, and that was a while back.
I just noticed kernal panics happening when the monitors blanked, or when they were about to blank, or coming back from blank. Then there was the panic after the fresh install, so now I'm 100% sure this is a hardware problem.
This is by no means limited to computers. All forms of technology contain the potential to make an otherwise sane man hit things with a baseball bat and cray.
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Because I've learned when to give up, have a stiff drink and go to bed. so, my $5,000 workstation needs to go in for service only a year after I got it. Not worth losing sleep over. Besides, I have AppleCare. For two more years, it's their problem to fix (now that I know it's not a software problem), not mine.
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Never got a GSOD or ASOD [ Unix's BSOD ] either.... oh wait, that's because Unix DOESN'T HAVE ONE. :p
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Also, how many of those did you have root on? And how many of those did you add/remove hardware with questionable drivers on?
A UNIX BSOD is a kernel panic, isn't it?
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Oh really? And what's the reasoning behind this assumption?
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The last thing that I changed was adding a couple of SATA disks, and that was a while back.
I just noticed kernal panics happening when the monitors blanked, or when they were about to blank, or coming back from blank. Then there was the panic after the fresh install, so now I'm 100% sure this is a hardware problem.
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That card ate itself more spectacularly, but it did give me graphics-related kernel panics too.
Man, Apple has a really shitty track record with the Gforce cards. That's what I had both then and now.
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Or is it because of pirate / hacked software? :P
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This is not because it's a pirate copy, it's a hardware problem. It just took me an unusually long time to confirm that.
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Depends on how unreliable it's demonstrated itself to be.
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