Okay, in spite of getting some earlier schooling here at Ars on this subject, I forgot some of what was said. Last couple of days, my main driver, an Asus P5Q-E went wacko on me. At first and second ...
Not afaik. It should be a nondestructive test to conduct (I don't have a Windows XP system to play with, and haven't had for years). I tried it, it won't boot. Yes, XP, really. It's for retro games, ...