[sao95]

a while ago i posted a prob here concerning my xp home os. It seemed when I turned the comp on and clicked on my comp it'd show the desktop, also to open any links in IE i'd have to right click and open in new window, there is a strange drumming sound when i do so. This goes away after awhile but when the comp is first turned on it's a prob as i'm not able to get to any files. I called microsoft and used my last "help me" for free, they ran me few somethings and ended by saying it was a hardware prob because it worked itself out after awhile (theory was it gets hot et cetera), said they had never heard of any probs like i'm having either. The funny thing is I had rebooted so many times with the tech support that when I hung up it was a fresh restart, and i left my comp alone, came back hours later and had same probs, it's not a hardware obviously as heating up isn't what is curing it but repeating the same action i think, their advice was to reinstall the OS to make sure it was hardware issue.... tyhought I share this with all, will be sending my mobo in as sound has never worked, so will probably reinstall OS while i'm at it, will keep you all updated...