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"Old hardware are well known source of random BSODs on modern Windows" certainly not my experience - any evidence to back this up?

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I have run into something a bit like that before, but even I thought that line was questionable.

Once got a free all-in-one someone was tossing that would bluescreen when using either the mouse or keyboard it came with. Using a different one worked around that, and upgrading/replacing the OS (I believe it had Windows 8 to start with and I upgraded to 10) also solved the issue. So I would be surprised if a fresh install had such problems.

I wouldn't put Windows on anything I'm gonna primarily use myself, though, just a machine for someone else to use.

Interesting - I wouldn't use an OEM install of Windows because you have no idea what they've done to it, even uninstalling all the crap that comes with it still doesn't clean it 100 percent. It's pretty terrible that you can't just use it out of the box

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