not really aside from the regular daz purchases. it runs alright in safe mode and the freezing stopped. we managed to clean the fan, remove programs i don't use and so far it is running alright and hasn't crashed as much as it did. although the screen still flactuates every once in a while but and i'm not really ready to create a complicated scene using vue with it just yet because i'm afraid it might die on me before i could save it lmao. but so far so good...let's hope the little hiccups would go away in time. thanks very much for the suggestions hon...i really appreciate it a bunch!

hugs,
Rain