Major Computer malfunction - Please Help

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

It's a pentium 4, 3.2 Gig

I'm thinking though: If it is running that hot right now, how hot was it running when I was playing Sims2 for an hour and a half this morning. I wonder if I fried it.

You don't have a spare hard drive do you? If you put a vanilla windows on it, then you could determine whether the problem is hardware or software.