The other day my XP desktop shut off all by itself. When I rebooted it, the screen displayed an error message having to do with Thermal something or another. (It was a few days ago but I wrote it down somewhere around here….) I googled the error and found mostly references to capacitors and the motherboard. Darn.

I wanted to do a memory upgrade on this machine but if there is a serious problem with it, any kind of upgrade would not make much sense. And since this computer is a little older and uses DDR (as opposed to DDR2), the RAM is a little more expensive. I’m just not sure what to do.

Other than that one error – and it hasn’t happened again – the computer runs fine. If it’s going to die, I probably won’t replace it right now since it’s one of four computers in my office. I just wish I could figure out if that error was just a hiccup or if it’s about to die on me.