I've already confessed that I roasted,smothered and choked my PC with a duvet. I thought this might have completely killed it but it ressucitated after cooling down for half an hour, and began running Windows as usual. It was a lucky escape, or so I thought. Life is never so simple. Like a Primaeval Soup where the sun's heat created the first microbes, cooking my PC seemed to have spawned some kind of alien life form in there.
The only structural damage seemed to be the CDRW tray which jammed shut. I thought that spending seventy one pounds on the latest Samsung model would be enough penance to pay for my stupid mistake. I even installed it myself, using a screwdriver on a PC for the first time, and learnt some new words like I-IDE, Master and slave, and jumpers. While I installed the Adaptec EZ CD software I looked forward to offering music CD's as presents to family and friends for Christmas because I can't afford aftershave and underwear this Christmas. But while burning the first CD the PC froze. Second time it crashed, and it has froze and crashed 14 times since then.
VIA Hardware Monitor reports that the fans , voltages, system temperature are all OK . No apps are running in the background during the burn pocess. I re-installed the software, even Windows, to make double sure. Im woried that my PC might be on the verge of early retirement or even death.
Im writing this from college because I haven,t been able to log into the forum from home for the last four days. Alex has been trying to solve it for me, I deleted all cookies and temp internet files but my machine won't accept Pc911 cookies for some reason. All my IE settings are set to allow cookies, PC911 is my only Trusted site.
Weird.

Joe