Hi Gloria,
I don't have to punish my computer, I have a cat that will easily do that for me.
I'm on my 2nd motherboard, because the cat likes to sleep on top of the case (as hard as that is to believe), cats like warmth.
I've got a 2-metre ham transciever on top of it now and the cat can't fit, lying down.
He still sits up there.
He managed to tear all the USB ports out of my last m/board and knock the system case down onto the printer below.
My cat must be a techno-phobe.