Originally Posted by MouseWife

You guys are scaring me. I also felt pretty safe because we aren't too close to too many people. Our backyard is canyon and only have two real neighbors. Our main Linksys is closer to one house than the other and up until recently I don't think the person who lived in their 'apartment' had a computer.

Something weird did happen yesterday, for the second time. I was on iTunes and {last time I was doing a project on my picture program} and then the cursor became an hourglass and continued to spin around.

The first time I was able to quit what I was doing and restart the computer. It said something about download being unable to complete because the computer shut down.

The second time, I couldn't shut down/restart because I was burning a cd at the time. When I finally did it it didn't say anything about it not being able to finish the download.

So. Today I get on line and am trying to send an e-mail and the computer just restarts itself, when it came back on it said there was a crash or something. I sent an error report to whomever it is I send them to but WTF???

What happened????

And, I haven't had a chance to have everyone power up at the same time...can't get everyone here at the same exact time with the time to do it. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't mind sharing too much if it didn't mess up my time on line. Or in case they are evil. :eek:

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Off the top of my head that sounds more like a heat problem. A clogged or dead fan or too much dust can cause random lockups like that. Of course so can a hard drive that's going bad or a program running amok. I would not worry about wireless intruders in this case.

Originally Posted by MouseWife

Doh! Thanks for reminding me!! We've had this computer for a few months and I know it gets pretty darn dusty. Am I supposed to use one of those cans and just give it, for lack of a better thought, a blow job? :blush:

{also time to clean the back of the fridge, change the water filter, change the battery in the smoke detector...all of that stuff...}

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I prefer sucking to blowing but that's just me. A standard vacuum with a horse hair attachment typically does a fairly good job (and is non conducting). If you do use the can be sure to let the PC cool off first and only use short bursts. That air comes out very cold. Be sure the check the fan inside the case on the CPU if you have one.