My thoughts: Power supply is usually the second thing to die in a computer, right after hard drives. Third place is RAM, especially if the computer was upgraded and the ram is a mismatched set.

Borrow a known good power supply and test it in your system. And also, run Memtest86 for a few passes to see if it can catch a RAM error.



Originally Posted By: bobcflatpicker
My computer build list for the last 15 years has been to wait until my son builds himself a new one and gives me his old one.


I didn't realize what a good long term investment it was to teach him how to build computers starting when he was 7 or 8.


Since he's still a gamer, everything he builds is really high end.


Brilliant move!


Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I’ll bet ‘acting up’ is more likely from software than hardware.


Agreed.

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