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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

If the system was working stably initially then it sounds like a hardware failure. The motherboard is pretty old so it could be failing. It's unlikely but still possible that a PSU can fail after only 2-3 years. Same thing with a GPU.

I'd check HD health using the portable zip edition of CDI:
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

Check RAM health by running this overnight some time:
http://www.memtest.org/

If both of those are okay I'd try a new PSU/GPU. Maybe someone has GPU bios advice but I've never done that.

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Looten Plunder posted:

Are the any utilities for monitoring power draw to see how much power my system is drawing?

Yea, but the ones I've seen aren't perfectly accurate. Using a physical power meter is superior:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-much-power-is-your-pc-using/

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