One of the problems with finding the solution to a problem like this is that if it does not reveal itself until after 20 hours of use and there are many potentially problematic pieces (memory, drive, motherboard, etc.) it can take literally weeks of testing before you even check each piece systematically.

Buying a new machine would be great and is very tempting but I would still be haunted by a machine that was sitting here, perfectly good, with just some “problem” that I had not resolved. If the machine dies again I am getting a new desktop and just using that but so far, I am still running. This is the longest run yet.

Unfortunately I changed several things in this final fun. The second SATA drive is not installed and a RAID driver was blocked from automatic install from the Windows auto updates. Either “might” be the problem but neither are likely.

Most likely it is the motherboard, followed by the drive followed by the memory. But it would take weeks more of testing to narrow down any one of them and… more importantly, I would have to replace each piece with new pieces to ensure that I was not putting the same problem pieces back into place while testing making the testing extremely expensive and ineffective.

On the other hand, I’m not computer expert, but I wonder if I could have fixed it if I where in your shoes. And then again, I wonder if you are one of those guys I would go to if I had a computer problem I could not fix. Either way, enjoyed the post, see you around on facebook.