Have you ever repaired ur Pc, or reinstalled its Os?

Yes, I'm doing everything on my own. Repairing, reformat and reinstall. But my last computer having problem with power supply, which force me to buy a new one.

Yes I have . I have solved some hardware and some software problems now and then. If I'm using my PC, then I use it very carelessly and it ends up having a lot of viruses and stuff, which always wants me to re install its OS. I've been using Leopard for sometime now and I've been having a very safe time browsing. bourne

I do too. I started using computer in DOS days. During those times 8088 was raining PC, a floppy disk base and no hardrive. I would say that that was my initiations with software. I was fortunate to use windows 3.1 and in Win95 the birth of MS Office. I learn hardware the hard way starting with my Pentium 100 now considered a Classic. During those days technological advancement in computers takes a longer time and so the more time to study it. I was able to upgrade it to the fullest till no more slot are available. It has 4 boots DOS, win98, win2000 and winXP(yes including this one for evaluation purposes only). I was constructing desktop since then as well as installing OS and related softwares and utilities.

Yes, I have... I have been using windows for over 9 years now. I used to work with Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE. It was really great to use that operating system after taking a course of MS-DOS. However, I was already very familiar with the usage style of MS-DOS and didn't have any problems while using it. Although, having a computer with Windows 98SE made me feel much better, after learning the basics of it of course. I didn't have any computer courses after taking my first course on Ms-Dos but my computer was already an old one in those days and while every other people were able to play games and surf the net with their pc, I was just able to play with my OS. And this is why I learnt the details of windows98 in those days. After using windows 98 for a few years, XP came out. I didn't use windows ME or windows 2000 but when XP was out I had just bought a newer computer and installed windows XP on it. I was very happy with my new operating system and was just learning the details of XP after all. I can understand what is going wrong on my machine whenever I have a problem. Even if I doN't have "clear" reasons, I can sometimes feel what is wrong :) I had SO MANY problems with my old computers and I fixed ALL of them by myself. Excluding 2 times. I had re-written my flash bios with wrong information and another time my power supply was gone. After all these situations, I learnt how to keep my computer safe and secure, and I learnt how to clean the bad stuff out of my pc without reformatting. Reformatting and reinstalling the OS is not a very hard thing to do but keeping your computer secure and safe is harder. Everyone can solve problems by re-installing. but I want to say that I haven't reformatted my current computer for 4 years and it is still working without many problems. There are not many people who can achieve that :)

I can detect if it's the hardware side but some on the software side. I can install Os on my machine even dual booting. I have tried Win 3.1, win 3.11 win95, win98, winNT, win98SE, winME, win2000 (Pro and Server) win2003, Win Xp(evaluation,home and Pro with SP1, SP2, Vista(Ultimate,Premium, Linux - Fedora Core 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Open Suse 9.0, Redhat linux, debian, Ubuntu(desktop and server), MAC os9 and osX. In linux i prefer to use Ubuntu for desktop, Fedora,debian, for server and In Windows i prefer WinXP for desktop, Win2000 or Win2003 for server.