I should have got a Mac.

Computers also gather dust. Good idea to open the cover and carefully clean it at least once a year(you can use a small vacuum, but I prefer taking mine outside and just blowing the crap out with compressed air).

BTW, same goes for Macs, too.

The temperature thing got me a few years ago. I needed a new system, had several parts, and pre-made systems were still fairly expensive. Built a 3' tower with three hard drives, three optical drives, and a bunch of other stuff. Damned thing started shutting down on me after 20-30 minutes, and I had built plenty of smaller systems before.

Got a free download of a temp monitor, and sure enough, all that hardware was just roasting inside. I had to run it with the sides off of the damned thing. Water-cooled systems were still very new back then, at least at the commercial level, and very spendy. Now you can get cases with built-in temp monitoring. If you don't have it, there is free software out there. I run such a program just to be sure I'm not toasting out one of my computers.

^

If you weren't such a tightwad and had listened to me about turning on the AC, that never would have happened.

Well it started messing up AGain,POS computer. I un-installed Microsoft and installed AVG, I hope this works without f*&king again. For some reason when its messing up the my computer stops working.

#23 Dude, I live in the Pacific NW. Maybe .000003% of the houses around here have AC. Either the wealthy or when some azzhats are allowed to build right next to the freeway (where you presumably wouldn't want to open a window). If we had AC, it would get used maybe 1, 2 weeks a year.

^ I have a a/c wall unit installed in my house (window unit that was perm. installed into a wall). I think we turned it on maybe 5 or 6 times this year total.

I agree with MACS. Trend micro makes pretty good software. The next computer that I buy is definitely going to be a MAC.

I have been mac only for about 14 years. no regrets.

I can't believe there was a Naughty by Nature reference in post 14 that nobody mentioned. I say Hip Hop Hooray to you pacman............Hip Hop Hooray.

well that was really bad. I tried to restore the system with the disk I made when I got this system and it DIED. when it would start it would auto detect sata port1 where the harddrive was and it would Freeze I'd moved the drive to another port and it would find the sata drives ok then sata port3 where the harddrive was move to and freeze so I bouthe a new one from Amazon and now it seems to be working ok again I wonder what happend to the other drive to cause it to die like that?

I don't use any at all! Haven't had any problems in 2 years since I stopped using norton and mcaffee.