JohnnyC

Hi I'm new here! I've a old dell Dimension 5150 running XP pro sp3. It seems to have gone a little temperamental when I moved it about. Recently its been making a loud buzzing sound I found that if I pushed a little pressure on the side of the case it stopped the noise. So I rigged up something to push on the side of the case. This worked to keep it quiet but caused the computer to crash after a couple of minutes and then restart. It then repeated this crashing behaviour again and again. It kept on crashing even when I removed the pressure from the side of the case. However it stopped crashing when I opened the case by removing the side. I guessed something somewhere is loose. I've now removed the RAM and HDs and cleaned connections and put it all back. So it working for now. But is temperamental. Also I've had this loose hardware connection and crashing problem twice before with this computer. Each time after I moved house. Any ideas what I can do to stop this temperamentality for good!