What, exactly, is a crash? My emachine desktop runs on XP and freezes up occasionally, usually when it doesn't like a particular web site which I have clicked on. My Toshiba laptop, which ran on ME, froze up frequently and the hard drive died once, but I was told that wasn't a crash. I have seen the BSOD only once...I can't remember now which computer it happened on - I think the emachine.