Just stopped booting!

my system, as listed in my sig (the athlon 64 one) started having problems a little while ago after running stable for weeks if not months. It started witha "disk read error" when it tried to boot from teh hard drives. Now i can only occasionaly get past the first system screen where it checks ram and then somtimes if it does go past that it freezes on teh screen that lists all the IRQs and such. when i can get it to boot off a CD and run some diagnostics the ram passes multiple passes of memtest. I can't really test the drive becuase i don't have another system with SATAand can't get my diag progs to work, but the problem persists even with different drives in differant arangments. DO i just need to give up and RMA it?
EDIT: i just looked at my sig and i did make a change to the system. I now have 2 crucial 1 gb sticks of ram. It has run well with them for an extended period of time. and so you know i have an enermax EG465-pe with 33amps on the +12

Quote from: Tiresmoke on 02-November-05, 04:13:26
The power indicator blinking is showing a power overload. You need a biiger PSU.
really? It's got 34 on the +12. It's now an ultra xconnect 500 watt you can see it's numbers at http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=37&pPath=157&productID=161
it is a new one, that I just put in when it started working again, but it worked fine for a few days of near constant use.
edit: fixed link to product page

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