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On 16 Feb 2009, at 17:30, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and
>> memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them
>> deformed? The 'head' going up?  Strange stuff around its feet?
>> Congratulation, you need new hardware.
>
> Sorry to be a numb skull here but what do you mean by `caps'

Capacitors.
http://images.google.com/images?&q=bad%20capacitors

But don't rely on this - a component can fail fail without it being  
visible.

IME the most common cure for nonspecific hardware failures is  
replacing the PSU, but in your case I would also swap out the graphics  
card early.

Stroller.