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Turned out the mobo WAS faulty; ran mprime in linux for 24h straight, same with memtest86+; then would not even show bios screen at startup; just flaky. At seven years old not realistic to repair or replace it so the whole lot has gone - i5 3600, 8G RAM and the mobo.

Thanks for all your help; I discovered if I set the cpu voltage as fixed at 1.2V the pc was more stable; I didnt know it would drop on idle,and my feeling was it was dropping a little too much at times. The PSU in question was a 530W Hiper HPU-4M530 V2 SLi Ready B - which I've now replaced with...

I've been experiencing random crashes for a little while, especially running games. Error: (01/03/2020 07:09:09 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power) (User: ) Description: 4 It was suggested it may be a PSU fault. However the bios reports the psu voltages as 3.3, 5 and 12 all within...

I have a HP tower PC HP3500S with an i5 3300S cpu & 4G RAM on a cr*p foxconn 2ABF mobo that only supports SATA2. So its slow. I've installed two good sata3 hard drives. ( C: and one partitioned D:, E:) I've also installed a pcie card that supports sata3. It does pick up the d & e drives, now...