Hi Mike, Doing the restore might have solved the problem. You really don't have any idea why the problem occurred. It would be a real good idea to open the case and check all the connections now to eliminate that possibility. If you don't determine what caused the problem it might happen again. Also make sure the components aren't covered with dust that can cause major problems if the components are really dirty. If they are, get a can of compressed air and blow it out. You can also protect your system files by hiding them, that way they won't be deleted by accident. I've never owned a Compaq or a computer that uses a restore disk; restore disks in my opinion are total BS. You might call Compaq and ask if you can install a "full" OS preferably NT4 or 2000 (if your not a gamer, most games work fine in win2000 however), if so you would be much better off buying a full version of NT4 or Win 2000 they are both rock solid. In all the years that I've been using NT and 2000 in my workstations I've never had a system lock up or crash. If you can't afford to buy it from a store, go to a computer show, I saw copies of NT4 at the one and only computer show I went too for $40.00. I've never bought anything from a computer show but it might be worth checking out. I build my own systems and have never had anything like that happen. You really need to try to find out why it happened; you may have a hard drive or motherboard etc. starting to fail. Or it might be something simple like dust. Best of Luck, Mike