Thanks for the quick reply Ron.
I am thinking the HD is dead, but what would cause this in a new (refurb) system? I have been thru 3 systems in two years, never having this kind of CPU issues before. My older HP tower, my pops gave me to get sschool work done, and I had a power outage, and it fried the power supply- it only blinks.
So, I bought a netbook, and one day- it just reboots itself- just like the new Dell. Not even on the system when it reboot itself and crashed.
Now its the new Dell, I have it hooked up to a power protector, but could it possibly be the current in my rented house that is frying computers? Its an old house, and a crappy town. Not known for their quality construction, hell the Harley building has blown apart twice in two weeks.
Now moving on to my next question. Can I take the HD out of my HP and stick it into the Dell? As far as I know the HD from the HP is fine, its only the power supply that died on taht system. Unplug the HD from the dell and swap drives over? Could it be taht easy? The old HD has XP on it, so I dont know if that will cause conflict. Or if I use my Win7 DVD and upgrade to 7 from XP? Is any of this possible? Or am I just crazy?
So if thats not an option, would you reccommend a new HD? I dont need a lot of space, just for college work and my photography stuff. This is a whole new world of computers that I have never gone to, and I am scared to take any more steps, that may just total my new system. Would I have to install some HD drivers to get the system to reconize it?
All this stuff is so complex to me, and I am sure very mundane to you, as I am sure you have been asked thses questions a million times.
Again, thank you for your help.
Mike
