My hubby was sat watching a video the other day on my super duper HP TouchSmart pc I won a few years ago (thank you osnn.net) when suddenly it froze for no reason whatsoever, he had to hold in the button to force it to turn off. Well we tried and tried to use the diagnostic check and other utilities but they just refused to open. All day we tried to find the problem and fix it but in the end we gave up trying, I wasn’t sure if it was a problem with the hard drive so I opened up the back and took it out. It was absolutely boiling so I left it on the windowsill overnight to cool down.
The next morning I put it back in, turned it on and left it alone while I went to make a cuppa and low and behold it came up asking if we wanted to do a restore back to the original settings so I quickly clicked YES before it went belly up again.
That was yesterday and touch wood it’s still going strong. No idea what went wrong with it, it refused to load and when it did it wouldn’t do what we asked it to. Pressing F11, F8 etc wouldn’t work so we just couldn’t to anything at all.
Lets hope that’s the end of it, if it does it again I’m guessing we’ll need to buy a new hard drive which is a hell of a lot better than a whole new pc.
Thankfully I managed to salvage all my precious photos but I lost everything else including my music which I stupidly hadn’t backed up for a while, oh well at least I can get it off my iPod 
