London has become a bit warm- its that time of year thhough thasnkfully there seems to be more of a breeze the last couple of night, so overall not as muggy and sticky as previos years. My new PC has just started throwing hissy fits. Machine Check Exceptions to be precise. One of those and it resets. No clue as to the exact cause- its a munfacturer’s supplied box, AMD 4400 running Windows XP, SP2 plus the usual collection of stuff- firewall, Anti-virus etc etc. I even run Sys Internals Rootkit Revealer now and then. You just can’t be too paranoid.

But its clean, patched and the only difference is that I added a 300Gb IDE disk just after I bought it. Its been running fine until the warmer weather. Very annoying. I used to get this with my old PC but it was hand built and was running a lot of stuff so the 12V line might have been a bit overstressed. But a box thats only 3 months old. Very annoying. How do PC owners in much warmer climes manage? Do I need air conditioning for 4 months a year?