computer woes

If your computer ever just freezes or locks up for no apparent reason, do yourself the favor of checking to see if all the fans in your tower are working properly. I spent almost 8 hours in safe mode running scan disks and defragging my hard drive just to have my computer essentially stop just after booting in normal mode. It wasn't until I touched my tower that I discovered that there may be a problem with one of the fans because my tower was hot enough to burn my arm! No wonder the cat avoided my tower all day, opting for the cooler monitor to lay on instead. Anyway, it turns out that it was a problem with my power supply fan.