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How does this affect the air flow? I would expect it to be cut down quite a bit. I might rather clean the dust out every once in a while than warm up my computer, as it already runs too hot.

Thanks for the advice, thought that is really the last thing i wanted to hear. Here's a question for you: why do you thnk it started doing it out of the blue? Did you ever figure that out with yours?

I have tried a different power supply, and the computer didn't reboot, but it did give me the errors extracting files and random program glitches. I only tried the other power supply for about a day, but the errors pretty much told me I wouldn't have to wait for the computer to reboot itsself...

I am looking to put together a computer, and I want the most reliable hardware out there. I have been burned so many times with motherboards going bad, memory crapping out, random foul ups and other general annoyances, that I just want a system that will work when I need it to. I am not...

For about the past month, my computer has been rebooting on its own every day or two. Also, I get random errors and programs freezing. This is most notable when I use something like winzip or winrar to extract files, one or two will have bad CRCs, but when i extract them the next time, all is...

You might try cleaning all the dust off of everything first. It is a pain in the ass, but with a few q-tips and some alcohol it can be done fairly easily. Also, check to see that the thermal paste has not dried up on your heatsink. If it is a retail P2, that is more trouble than it is worth...

Some of those old packard bells used really weird CD-ROMs with proprietary DOS drivers. Try replacing his old cd-rom with a generic one and trying the setup again. If that doesn't work, put the hard drive in another machine and copy the OS install files to it and you should be ready to go.