To answer the queries of my the people who actually felt my pain... AS and ICM: well i did change the battery... cost at about $1.50 so thats expensive here too... didn't work Sambucus : Well $800.00 is just a plain simple setup. pentuim 4 2.4 gighrz, 256 ram, 64 vid card. built-in sound card. cd rom with dvd writer, 17" monitor, balck casing (yeah they include that too) and at some stores, thats with a free printer.. not bad if you just started at your first comp right? Bryster: Well i really dont have an internet connection at home... DSL is very expensive at $100 a month so thats about 5000 here... thats already somebody's payroll for the month! so i just use the Net connection of my office... my boss doesn't mind...HAHA! Firewall: Tnx for the support, i took the liberty of bringing my dead computer to a repair shop... since i was afraid that i could do more damage to it... it'll probably be up and about by wend. hopefully and he said it wond cost that much. in dollars the reapirs would be $10.00 and even in our standards that very cheap... so for now i see a little light at the end of this dark tunnel... hopefully it will turn out well. Vile occdoug: my sentiments too... dont you just hate those machines? you luv em, them stab you at the back! you know what my trouble actually started when i changed my os from win 98 to win xp.... dang! maybe i'll change it back to 98... that way everything will turn out fine. thnx for all your support again! i appreciate all of it!