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Isn't it nice, and also kind of annoying, when a problem that's been bothering the hell out of you turns out to have an incredibly simple and easy solution?

For the past few weeks my computer has been totally freezing up a few times a day, and nothing I'd try to do to fix it would ever work for long; for a little while it would work for a few hours, then the time it lasted would get less and less until I would only have a few minutes after turning it on before it froze.

Obviously, I was very worried that my computer was about to die on me when I'm in no financial state to get a new one!

But I've been keeping an eye on what things I could do that it would get through without ever freezing at all and what would make it choke up right away and today it finally hit me that it only happened when it was connected to the internet. So I pulled out my modem, cleaned it off, and popped it back in a different slot for good measure and it's been working perfectly well ever since. Hooray for surprisingly easy answers!