GEM! You're baaaaaack!
I am indeed back -- but oddly, the clicking sound that my PC was making before it froze, is occurring again. The tech said he ran diagnostics on the hard drive and it's fine, and thought that the splitter that was used to connect with the power source was causing an irregular power flow, causing the crash. He removed and replaced the splitter (returning my speakers to a low level audio output waah), but there is that clicking again. I wish I could get a new PC.