Have you made any recent changes to the computer?
I live on a circus in Japan, so every 3 months we load up and move to the next town. During that time, the computer is put on the floor, covered to guard against anything falling on it, and then it sits in the container until I can get back inside and get air conditioning going. During the travel time most recently (for about a week, about two weeks ago) the temps outside probably were in the range of 95 to 100 degrees. I think that qualifies as rough treatment. When I got the system hooked up and back on the internet, the first thing I did was reinstall Lavasoft's Adaware. I had taken up an offer to upgrade for a year at no cost, but when that time period ended, the whole program was unusable, so I just uninstalled and reinstalled the lower level free program. Upon reinstalling, the computer had a very rough time during the initial full scan, crashing twice, and since I hadn't noticed anything other than that, I assumed that there was a problem with the reinstalled software. Uninstalled again and reinstalled, same problem. Uninstalled and reinstalled, did the smart scan with no problem, so figured it was the full scan that was causing a software problem. However, the computer crashed several more times without having had the Adaware scan running, so I realized that I had something else going on. Last night, I tried to use my CD burner and found that the reader didn't seem to be working right--after burning my files to the CD, the disc would show up as blank, but the information was there when I put the disc into a different computer.
How old is your computer?
Four years old.
Do you do maintenance every six months?
Yes.
Is it laptop?
No. It's a Prime Asus tower with a Pentium 4 HT processor.
Thank you.
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