I hear a variation of this type of thing from windows fans constantly. "It's your hardware's fault." But never Window's fault. My experience is this; most of my computers are dual boot with windows and linux. When I have a problem with windows, I'll boot into linux and the problem goes away. Same hardware.

Lolz yeah right. It's the hardware's fault that windows install is non deterministic.

Well, flakey RAM causes loads of intermittent issues.

So does improper handling of write barriers.

It's definitely not flaky hardware.