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I have been having some trouble with my Windows PC yet again.
I think the old thing has finally given up... or, at least, I've finally given up on it.

Fortunately, life goes on, and DSB does too.
I've gotten Windows XP running inside of VMware on my Mac and so far everything's pretty good. The virtual Windows is a little bit slow; most significantly, there's a slight amount of sound lag. However, for the most part, it's completely responsive and DSB itself performs well.

So I feel like development can definitely continue in this environment.

Wish you the best.
A little notebook is good enough for development too - and you can test the things with (relativ) low performance.

@Sofia,
May be a fresh XP install would give the same result.
Fresh Widows run well then gradually go bad getting old, from shit apps installs/uninstalls I guess.
Not sure a Virtual XP will not do as a XP.
I am interested to know about the advantages of Virtualisation.

Unfortunately, it's not the kind of problem reinstalling the OS would fix.
The computer won't even turn on fully. I think it's a hardware issue with the motherboard or possibly the power supply.
At this point, the thing is around 5 years old now anyway so I say... meh.

Check the cmos-battery,,.

Yes, I did that. Unfortunately it wasn't that simple!

My brother just lost a motherboard too - reason unknown :/

Planned obsolescence.
Cheap leaky capacitors where it is hot.

...too true. I lost a board because of them too.