I have a very old desktop (gateway 2000 i think) and i remember that it was freezing a lot when we had it at our house, but it was moved to the office at my mothers work, we may be getting ti back and i figure it would be a good rig to practice computer building on so it wont be my first build when im dealing with 800 or so dollars of electronics on the gaming rig i hope to build. but, i dont think it would help much if im trying to build a computer i know wont work (ill take it apart then rebuild) so i was hopong to find out why it froze so much. (also i put it in prebuilt because it was originaly a prebuilt [obviously if its a gateway]) any help i could get would be greatly appreciated, also i have another one running windows 2000 i cant remember what brand and it works fine but i may also be rebuilding that one as well. neither are used anymore they would have been thrown out so i figure, hey practice makes perfect. thanks.