On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:36:59 -0500, David Maynard
<nospam@private.net> wrote:

>Cyde Weys wrote:
>
>> Alright guys I've sorted out my troubles. I was able to pretty much
>> rule out everything except the mobo as not working, so I bought the
>> mobo kony suggested, I just installed it, and I'm now running memtest86
>> and not getting the errors.
>>
>> Windows isn't booting, mind you, but that's a Windows driver issue, not
>> a hardware issue.
>>
>> Grrrr, stupid Windows. It should be able to hot-swap mobos.
>>
>
>Why should it? A motherboard is not a 'mobile' item and, in fact,
>considered essentially 'the computer' (with a processor and memory).
>Everything else is an 'add-on' to it.

Because it's a desirable feature, to many even if you don't
care either way. Because what they "have" to allow is the
opposite of what they would allow, in a free market to
remain competitive.

Full retail licenses are not tied to "the computer", only
one system which would obviously not be the case here. They
would have the feature because without it the customer will
spend a minimum of 1/2 hour if not more (actually a LOT more
time if a person is prudent and makes system backups
inbetween the windows updates as they should've previously).
Their choice to cost customers time is clearly a disregard
for them.