[Cerek the Barbaric]

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I'm not sure what a "mobo" is, but I DID get a new motherboard (if that's what you're asking). To my knowledge, the power supply was NOT upgraded - but I trust the guys that did the upgrade and I'm sure they would have told me if I needed to do that.

As for the error message, the only thing I get is a pop-up window that says "The system has recovered from a serious error". It gives me the option to Send the Report, but since it has rebooted the PC, I'm no longer connected to the internet (still have dial-up)

I DID actually "Send the Report" to Microsoft when I had taken the PC to work with me to work on it there. We have DSL at work so I was able to Send the Report. Unfortunately, Microsoft had no idea how to solve the problem - so they weren't any help at all.

Arrrggghhh. This is SOOOOOOO frustrating! All I want to do is play some BGII, and my machine has better specs than many of the members in the BGII forum that are regularly posting their latest exploits.

I'm probably going to take it BACK to the PC Store and have a talk with the owner. When we discuss the charge to troubleshoot the PC, I'm going to explain that it was NOT crashing and rebooting BEFORE the upgrade. Then it just kept FREEZING and I had to manually reboot.