I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've been running Windows ME on a Compaq Presario (yes, I know) for about 3 years, and it's been fairly okay so far. About three weeks ago, I moved the computer from Wyoming to Arizona. It worked fine for the first week, but then I noticed that my computer was freezing... a lot. After trying a lot of different things, I decided to do a factory restore. It didn't help at all. It still freezes constantly, for no reason. It tends to do it more when using the CD-ROM drive (specifically installing something from CD-ROM) but sometimes it freezes even when I play solitare. I looked inside the case, but I didn't find much other than the fan on the motherboard was very warm after only a few minutes of computer usage. Is this normal? Any suggestions for how to solve this problem?

yeah, during a move like that, you could have damaged sectors on your HD, use scandisk on through to fix that. Also, you might need to reinstall WinME. After three years, many techs will agree with me, its time.

Zegota, wish I could offer you a better thought, but... Just be aware that sometimes, during a move, stray magnetic fields can be encountered which can make a sensitive piece of electronic equipment do strange things. Might help to try rearranging things on your desktop, put them in different spots and see if there is any change??? (Relationship of computer/monitor, etc.) HTH. Ed in Texas.