You all know Windows RG, right? This really sux. I'll start from the start. A couple weeks ago I was using my machine just fine, when it suddenly powered off and wouldn't turn on again. I took it to a local repair guy, and he showed me how messed up it was. He said I probably damaged the motherboard with static when i was modifying it, which corrupted the PSU, which malfunctioned and melted the chips off my hard drive's motor board. My parents didn't trust me to touch it anymore, so they had him put in new parts- a PCchips mainboard, and an identical hard drive, and then a new Nvidia Geforce4 graphics card because "your old one is too slow for this board." So I took it home, and things crashed every other second. It nearly always started up with problems. So I got a new CPU ($200 dammit!). But it still spontaneously locks up during 3D games with a high pitched tone, freezes when I try to watch quicktime in my browser with an "Upgrade now" dialogue. Some programs display invalid page faults the instant I try to launch them, every single time! (outlook express, norton systemworks) It also wont recognize my printer as being plugged in. This machine worked exactly perfectly with no problems with all the same peripherals and software (except some newer anti spyware stuff) before I got this new hardware. Now the repair guy says the motherboard is probably too fast for windows 98, so I should go buy XP. My mom is wiggin out and doesn't trust him anymore. Is this guy giving me bullshit? Is there any component that can be damaged to cause this other than the motherboard, graphics card, ram, hard drive, psu or cpu? (or is the new PSU just really bad?). Should I just trash this windoze crap and use linux? This is a really bad situation. I'd be greatful if anyone could help.