You dont have to worry the pc died as a games machine thank's to cretin software houses doing games needing powerfull machines, american software houses behind the mad rush upgrade.
Even in america joe public have stuck 2 fingers up at software houses and gone to console gaming as thier sick to death of having upgrade to next pc to play a game.
And as for the idiot gates thinking people will upgrade to vista to play some of his vista games what planet he living on, who the hell is gona upgrade to a powerfull dual core system with lot's memory to play a vista game.
He has lost the plot as the rot started with 486 pc as have trip hawkins of electronic art's i believe was him in 1 our magazines saying stuff 386 user's, when the flight sime come adventure game came out on 486.
i have game name slips me mind but he said to 386 users you must upgrade play game as he dont care as he will make sales from 25000 486 core gamers.