Just Baked Computer #2...

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Looks like a pretty nice computer that you bought, the only things I would have changed would have been to have a decent Vid Card in it and added SSD for fast boots - eliminating the need to just have them sleep, which is probably why it was so choked with dust because if your fans are turning, they're sucking in dust particles.

You can have your computer fully booted in seconds with a SSD... they're pretty amazing.

I just happen to have a very nice PNY video card that came out of the old ASUS... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The HP I already bought does have a 128GB SSD. It does boot quick.

The old computer in the shop was packed with dust because of me being careless mainly, doing wood projects cutting wood, die grinding metal and/or just sweeping and not covering it up, it was abnormally packed with all kinds of dust... my fault. I'm going to throw a towel over the new one I put out there when I sweep or work on projects that cause dust. Since now I'll have two new desktops, and I wasn't planning on having to replace them so it was a hit to the budget, I surely don't want to ruin a brand new machine.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

UPDATE: Out of curiosity, wondering if letting the old ASUS sit, if it would act differently, I was able to get it to boot to disc and it appears it's reloading W7. If it works and I'm able to get it running again, I'm going to cancel that new computer order and save some money. The only thing I use that shop computer for is listening to Spotify and look up something, usually auto parts and such. I don't need anything fancy. I hope like heck I can get this thing running again. I would really love to save the money.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Well, I was able to load W7, and it did appear to kinda be working. It was still slow but not locked up kinda slow. Thought I might get somewhere but went to restart it and it said "unable to restart computer," so... it's been dismantled and the hard drive got the Redwing mineral pic hammer treatment. Something was catastrophically wrong, something fried on the mother board probably.

I backed out on that bigger HP computer too. It was taking forever to ship anyway so I cancelled it. There's a ton of the same computer I bought not long ago for sale online. I'm watching one on ebay in an auction. Going to save a couple hundred bucks +, and I'm real happy with that computer anyway, it's fast, it's new, it has HDMI and built in wifi and bluetooth... good enough.