After a few days of dealing with slow load times and random crashes, I finally decided to look into what was going on with our desktop PC. I checked the RAM, it was fine and that's good cause I just bought it. Nothing was overheating so I guessed the CPU was okay. Then I noticed the little red hard drive light on the case would start until about 10 or so seconds after we tried to access something and when it did the computer froze. It was the hard drive.
I bought a new one of Friday and spent most of the morning installing the part, then Windows 7, and after that updates. At least I was able to read for class in between the computer needing my attention. Luckily that night I was able to get all our information off the old drive. I'm going to do a wipe of it and take it to a recycling center at some point. The computer works great again, and we now have twice the storage on it and a faster drive in it.
I'm guessing the next thing to go will be a fan or two. Those are easy to replace and I am fine with that. I just hope nothing else really breaks... knock on wood!
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