On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > > It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was > having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 > box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on > it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a > new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I > can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will > have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop > Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it > should work.... TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but it might suit your purposes. Good luck. mhr