Computer died, and tells me "System Failed CPU Test"

[Thorin]

For no apparent reason I decided to click the More Stats link and was surprised to find this thread in the top 10 topics by views, which then led me to read through it.

I can't believe I bought those computers over four years ago, and they're still going strong.  Changes I've had to make to them:

- bigger hard drive in one to store more data
- new power supply in the one I put the bigger hard drive in
- bought fanless video cards to offload Farmville processing from CPU so CPU fan wouldn't come on

They've definitely worked well for my family.  In fact, they're _still_ working well for my family.

[Darren Dirt]

Yikes!

Yeah, so I went to watch episode 5 of The IT Crowd with my wife when the computer froze.

Yeah, 2008 is like 4 years ago, but somehow the contents of the OP make it seem like more recent ... hard to believe IT Crowd has been around that long!

[Thorin]

I was introduced to IT Crowd three jobs ago!  It's my new measure of time.  Or to put it another way, that was in the pre-teens-in-Thorin's-house era.