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I've been fighting hardware problems ever since I got back from DevTeach in mid-June. The computer would just hang at random times, sometimes with the BSOD, other times it would just lock up tight. At first I thought that one of the memory chips had failed, but swapping memory out didn't fix that. It started to look like a device driver. I uninstalled some drivers, updated others...and the problem seemed to go away. Then, yesterday, everything started happening again. It got to where I if the system locked up, it wouldn't reboot. Now I'm thinking it's heat related because if I let the system sit without power for a couple of hours, it will run fine for a short time, then shutdown. I got fed up. Today I purchased a new system...it's a "do-it-yourself" system, but the great news is I'm upgrading from a 1.2 GHz AMD Athalon to a 3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 and from 512 MB RAM to 1 G RAM. The drives from the old system all seem intact, but I'm still going to Freeman the system drive, just to totally rule out driver issues. I should be back up and running soon.