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Fear of the unknown and the hassle of loading it up and tying all your programs to it.
someguyincanada said:does anyone know how to make a computer childproof? dont want the munchkin doing anything to it that is bad
GerryCan said:While I was away my wife told me that my pc was acting up, so when I got home I used it for a couple days with no troubles and finally one day during start up it froze and emitted a 2 second beep about every 5 seconds. I'd restart it and sometimes it would boot normally with no problems and other times it would do the same thing. Once in the middle of the night while I had it on it did the same thing and woke me up, needless to say I was pretty pissed off at it. So I did a fresh install(my least favourite solution) and it worked fine for the next week or so. So when I came back overseas my house closed and we moved and when my brother set it up again, it did the same thing, starting smoking and shut down completely. Turned out that the mother board was fried along with my RAM. Anyone know what the heck could cause this? I'm running XP Pro with Service Pack 2, I have updated virus software and haven't installed any new hardware on it for quite some time. I ended up fixing the problem with this:
http://www.apple.com/ca/imac/
and have since turned my back on Windows after years of losing hair over it. Still curious as to why this happened though, anyone?