Welcome to the forum! Where in AB are you located??? I live in Central AB and have been running a pond for 7 years now. As to your plants. As long as the water lilies were under water they might survive. I've accidentally left iris in their pots beside the pond and they've overwintered. I've never been able to overwinter pickeral either in the pond or buried in the garden. Plants that have overwintered in the pond are iris, lilies, bog bean, dwarf cattail, manna grass, water forget-me-not and another grass that is varigated green/gold--can't remember the name. Hornwort sometimes comes back and so has frogbit. My pond is still in ice mode. When it unthaws I'll retrieve the lilies from the bottom and raise them up in the shallow end to get them growing. I do not run my pond in the winter as havn't had any luck trying to overwinter fish even with airstone/pump so I move my fish indoors for the winter. Best place I've found to get water plants is Anna's Water Gardens in Blackfalls. High quality and good prices. They also have koi and goldfish. They sell water lettuce, hyacinth, parrots feather which might do well in a spillway. I havn't had much luck with hyacinth or water lettuce. Might be my ph as is high 8.5 and alkaline water. The bog bean I have has overwintered in the pond for two years now so may get more as it's not overly aggressive. My iris didn't bloom last year but had repotted them and then we had that cold spring last year so everything was very slow in growing. Hope this helps. Patti

Sorry, just a little more information.... When it comes up in safe mode, you still see all the safe modes in all the corners and the XP build number at the center top....the display is working. As soon as it boots up it comes up and asks do you want to try System Restore or do you want to continue in safe mode....I have tried everything before sending this message. I have rebooted into Setup and tried to get it to reboot to the default settings, but that didn't work either....

Never mind. When I went to shut down the computer in Safe Mode I hit Restart by mistake and now it works fine.

In my eMachine, in the Bios I can check the temperature, have you done this? Below is what I posted earlier. If your computer is getting hot it will cut off to protect the PC. If I had your computer I would want to know if your problem is in the hard drive or some were else. If you put your hard drive into another computer as a slave you can do 2 things. Error Checking and Copy your files to a CD. You can buy a hard drive enclosure for about $40.00 or less that will plug into a USB. This will allow you to remove your files. I'm not sure about running Error Checking from an enclosure. Ask someone. This website explains hard drives http://computer.howstuffworks.com/adding-a-hard-drive.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- If you need an Install CD for your computer, call or email them. I bought one for mine for $20.00 from eMachine. --------------------------------------------------- If you can get an extra hard drive (Remove the old one) and use the eMachine Install CD (that you mention) the first thing your computer will want you to do is go online and Register it. You won't be allowed to use the computer except to Register. Just let the computer set and run, if it doesn't cut off than I would say the problem is in your hard drive. Or take the computer to a repair shop. Their getting $65.00 just to check a computer out were I live. ----------------------------------------------------- Check the temperature in the Bios. By tapping F2 Key when you start of. I'm giving my temperature as an example. CPU 38c degrees Current System Temp. 35c degrees ------------------------------------------- CPU Fan Speed 2483 RPM System Fan Speed 1332 RPM