Aem

Hi,

Had my 7014 since 2002. Problems started when the touch pad sent the mouse all over the screen whenever I touched it, then my "friend" spilt a cup of sugary coffee all over it and decided to try to finish his game before I came back. Since then on running system tests I have partial corruption in my graphics card memory, and the "=" key decided that it would want to throw itself all over the place when it felt like it. Although when I spilt a glass of wine over it it solved the "=" problem and the touch pad no longer works, which is ok with me. The main problem is that a lot of the time when I shut it down it crashes and re-starts. At 2 in the morning this gets annoying, so to rectify it I pull the plug, (yeah I know). Last time it crashed in a winehouse way, on boot up it would hang after the xp load up screen. I ran it in safe mode and done the old moves, (chkdsk /f), but then it would no longer boot, even in safe mode. Knowing the history I ran it in the classic VGA only, uninstalled and re-installed the graphic drivers.

Which brings me to now... My computer is on and working, and I'm too scared to turn it off. My electricity bill is going to be larger than pavarotti's waist line, (when he was alive, probably wasted a little now.)

Any advice?