So, what do I do? I back up everything, and reformat.
I reinstall Windows 98.
I turn on my computer... and what do I find? It won't accept my modem. No drivers, wont' even say it exists. Also, it's locked into 2 or 16 colors, and in 600x480.
Which means it doesn't see my vid card. So, I call Bajah, having no clue what to do. He talks to me, and... Can't figure anything out. (nothing against him, he tried 
) but.. my modem goes into a brown slot shorter then my white PCI slot. Why, I have no clue. So, I took out my tiny modem, and put in a regular one, into a PCI slot.. then I tried to put it back together, and....
about 3 of my pins in my mouse are bent. So I manage to fix them, turn on camp again, and then shut it down after fiddling with the drivers. And after I turn it off, it ends with a high pitched, loud whine coming out of it, which dies after about 4 or 6 seconds.
Sounds like it's going to explode.
I come down, get mom off her comp, tlak to bajah more, go back, check and make sure that nothing is touching the cooling unit... and nothing is, and whine is quieter, but still there. so it's now completely unplugged.
Also, it tried to start in safe mode the last time I started it up.
Then, my mother basically says that it's my fault it's broken, since "I'm on it so much."
Weee.
(2) Sounds like your PSU is on it's last legs. The last time I heard a whine like that was shortly before a 350W PSU I had blew out in a puff of blue-grey smoke. 
Don't know how long it's going to last you.
And I'm not supprised. it's just one thing, then the next.
My sister's HD died, so I'm gonna try switching my HD over to her old setup, but that won't help my driver problem, since she has same modem,a nd such.
*sigh*
I reformat to get rid of the little bits of progs that stay.. and defrag made comp freeze, too, so I coudln't do that....
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Gikkwiny wrote this stupid crap:
how will rebooting solve memory probs?
Memory or disk space?
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I did. over and over and over.. and.. how will rebooting solve memory probs?
Memory. RAM. Volatile memory. Wipes clean when you reboot
I don't know where all my memory went.
Also, I have done it before, and it WORKED. I don't know hwy it didn't, this time.
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Gikkwiny had this to say about John Romero:
I have uninstalled stuff.I don't know where all my memory went.
Could there be a virus causing this problem? Eats up extra HD space, and messes up Windows?
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Could there be a virus causing this problem? Eats up extra HD space, and messes up Windows?
It's possible. What AV do you have?
"It's something even the Masters don't reveal about the hidden nature of the universe... the deepest and darkest of all that the Force lets you see... the universe has a sense of humour." Callista, Children of the Jedi
New Power Supply: Maybe about 30 bucks
New PCI Modem: Also about 30 bucks, depending.
Also, next time you uninstall/delete files, try running the windows defrag program. The reason this helps, iirc, is that when you delete files ou don't actually erase the information, just the tag that says "the file is here"(which prevents it being overwritten normally). The defrag will also help just making your FS cleaner
Hope a lurker can help 
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2 megs of space, even. Bah. Anyway it can eat up a lot of space pretty quick depending on your browsing. On my old computer I cleared out something like 50 megs of space in one go because I hadn't cleaned it out in a while, not including cookies. Now I religiously go through them once a week.
You can set a hard cap to the amount Windows is "allowed" to store in there. On my old computer I had it set to 20 megabytes after I found that I had 500 megabytes of temporary internet files. It was bad. Now I have it capped to 100MB, becuase I have more space.
And jeaden, if I remember correctly, older versions of Windows without a user-defined amount of virtual memory set will grab the largest unfragmented chunk of harddrive it can find.
This works fine after a fresh reformat, as nothing is fragmented. But after awile it gets worse and worse, and Windows eventually begins to run like absolute shit.
I have nothing more to add. Okay.
