You're welcome. If it makes you feel any better, I'm on an 11 year old PC with a video card whose ventilator doesn't work anymore. I'm used to
slow, crashes and lots of heat in the wrong places. I need to upgrade too but money is non-existent so I have to wait. The only "problem" I've had
with ATS was a site problem. I think some hard disks in a server were bad a week or two ago and if you clicked on a thread it gave you a warning page.
No site freeze, just temporarily unavailable. It didn't last long though, they had it back up very quickly (kudos to the server admins!).
The only thing that might help (but I realise your eyes could be glazing over already, computers are boring things to talk about) is to try and
pinpoint what the problem is. I mean, you mention being able to log back out again which seems to indicate that the site still works and so does your
browser. If you had been previously watching lotsa youtube stuff, perhaps the Flash plugin seized up. For Java apps, maybe a newer version of Java is
available. (I hate Java and got rid of it so Java sites don't work at all here) Its probably not much help and diagnosing problems remotely is always
hard but I would start to look in those areas first if things get worse.
Good luck with yer nice shiny new PC too.