re: #376 J.S.

that’s bad news (generally speaking) — there are drivers (drivers are the software which interacts with your hardware); (if any drivers “conflict”, they could cause electrical circuitry problems (could ruin your motherboard — the system will shut down if there’s any, say, overheating). should go into the Device Manager and look for any yellow exclamation marks, then remove any driver which is causing the problems…

OK, well it sounds like a fan is running all the time.
Indication of overheating?
I guess I’ll need to bring it in to geek squad. I don’t feel like trying to figure out what the prob is.