Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months.
Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever?
They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working floppies from the eighties and early nineties.
And I deal with hardware with drives, and memory, and the occasional m/b failing at less than five years old. Depends on the manufacturer, the q/c they had at the time it was manufactured, and the day of the week, as the old line from car buyers goes.
mark "make mine on a Wed, please"