Acadia! it's Ariana here....you know the Dell from Hell owner! LOL! Look...can you e-mail me and I will give you my personal mail or phone. I have a tech friend who is willing to trouble shoot this and it should work. You know I wouldn't steer you wrong. And the Dell tech's up in Canada are great, IF you have your warenty intact. You don't need a motherboard, it is most like massive log in error/ worm....suggestion, can you start in safe mode and go to Microsoft and do the deep virus scan? It takes Foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer. But it might find the problem, once identified the fix is usually quick and painless. Lesson. Have a back up Dinosaur Desk Top!  I run 2 puters for just this reason! 1 has windows 98, and Never ever had an issue....even now! But it does not support all programs XP does. Still you can run your XP on the Desk, and LT! Write.
HuggerZ!
Ariana

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