Reasons for Absence

Normally I'm not this much 'offline'. A combination of problems resulted in reverse engineering an OS; oh, my bad....Windows isn't an OS...it's something little round things can break; to the point of

1. Removing hard drives, two actually, testing each and not having another case to test in.
2. Removing memory sticks, ditto.
3. Removing video cards, two again...seeing a pattern here?
4. Removing WinXP Home...which really didn't...don't ask...
5. Removing WinXP Pro...which couldn't, because of hardware causing Blue Screens of Death (BSOD)...yes, they still live.
6. Losing all data, save what I managed to have on USB sticks. Made the mistake of OS install...the recovery partition chose to install to the WRONG DISK, killing my data on THAT ONE!
7. Overall times both OSes installed and totally new BSOD error code screens given...with multiple scenarios: 7!

I FINALLY solved the problem however, by using a WinXP pro SP2 CD to fully...FULLY...format the drive, shut down and was going to install WinXP Home...after being disgusted after days let it get past me and said 'The Heck With It!', and settled for Pro.

Maybe I need to quit worrying about the PC and eat better through the garden of life.