: Well, you told me to shut up about the only explanation why your pc died.
Actually, the explanation I was talking about was the usual "Because it ran Windows" one.
: But well, did you format your pc every 3 month?
Actually, under XP, you shouldn't. Waste of time, surprisingly.
: did you viruz check it
: everyday and update the anti-virus weekly? if so, then i am suprised your
: pc died. (when i got a pc this is what my pc friend suggested me to do,
: format every 3 month and check for viruzes daily)
Actually, those are irrelevent, funnily enough, since it is obviously a hardware problem (Probably only a broken power switch). CIH can sometimes look like a hardware defect, but it does *not* cause a PC to turn itself on by itself.