Hey MsMittens,

No, I haven't ever opened this one up; that's one thing I haven't tried before!

This computer is pretty old and slow: the thing only has 256 mb of RAM and a GHz. Overall it's a pretty darned slow thing.

I'm not sure (and can't find out) what manufacturer type the harddrive is. Its got 30 gb of room, but I can't see why that would make a difference. Nope, I haven't tried a harddrive diagnostic disk/AV bootdisk nor do I know what it is!

I could get it if it would help; thanks for the help so far!

Cheers,
DCheng