Computer Woes

Last weekend was a bad computer-weekend for me. My laptop locked up 30 times (no joke) so I started rebuilding it on Sunday. Now today is Thursday and I'm almost done. Good thing I can work on another system. The reason it is taking so long? I applied an update to my Intel chipset from Dell and it locked my system back up yesterday (to the point where it would no longer boot). So I started it over yesterday. I am back to a basic installation with all my system drivers installed and MS Office (plus a few basic apps). I'm afraid to install Visual Studio again. Previously I had VS 2002, 2003, and 2005 beta 1 installed. For some reason, beta 1 worked better than 2003 (which is why I had to reload in the first place). Oh well.