my computer went all retarded again... started deleting crucial dlls' etc because they were apparently corrupted..
fine, "I'm done with this hard drive" I said, I swapped out my C drive for a nice 150gig HDD, and started reinstalling windows
but the computer wouldn't detect the HDD.. so after a while I figured there must be something wrong with the power supply for that hard drive or the ribbon or something.. so I unplugged one of the other HDD's and used those cables...
so I think all the problems I've had is because of those faulty cables.. constantly stepping down my graphics card somehow, crashing all the time, deleting stuff all the time.. it got to the point I could only download 2 things at once, and if I did anything else my comp would crash, photoshop got unbelievably retarded, videos ran at like 10 FPS with a ton of tearing.. man
so now, even though I have to download and install a lot of stuff again, its worth it.. my computer's quite respectable now

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only bad thing is I can now confirm there are problems with my mouse, and it wasn't my computer's fault
