New P6N Platinum acting wierd...

What's up guys. My dad's computer at his office has been giving him problems like locking up, sluggish performance even after a reformat, etc so he gave me $1200 to build him a new machine that will last him "a long time". hahah
So I've put together a pretty decent Core2Duo machine. Here are the specs
E6400
P6N Platinum
1 gig of Gskill DDR2 800
This stick
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231085
A corsair 520 watt PSU
Generic PCIE video card
75 gig Raptor HDD (I'm going to use his existing HDD as supplimental storage)
Samsung DVD writer
I put it together, the system loaded windows XP fine, I installed the motherboard's monitoring software that Dual Core center thing, video drivers, Ntune software (which I now know is useless) and then proceeded to install office, some anti spyware apps, antivirus software, etc...
That's all well and good but here's where trouble started up.
During the software install, the Dual core center that was monitoring the fan speeds and cpu temp flashed at me saying one of the case fans wasn't spinning. I opened the side panel and both case fans were spinning fine. (X_<)
I disabled that montior and continue installing stuff. A minute or two later, the other one goes red saying the 2nd case fan wasn't spinning. I still had the side off and could clearly see all connected fans still spinning. I disabled that one thinking it was the last I'd hear.
I have an E6600 and another P6N platinum and 2 gigs of patriot DDR2 1066 ram coming today for my own system upgrade and I had already bought an EVGA 7600GT video card to use temporarily until the DX10 cards start dropping in price.
Anyways, I wanted to see what sort of benchmarks the unclocked system could spit out so I shutdown, popped the 7600 in, rebooted, re-installed the latest Nvidia drivers and installed FEAR.
I ran fear and it froze up during one of the pregame splash screens. I held down the power button to reboot it and when I turned it back on, the system physically came on but there was no post and the monitor stayed in standby mode. No beeps or anything. All 4 little LED's on the Dbracket thing were lit up green.
Thinking mabey something was up with the video card I shutdown and put the old card back in. Same thing with this one now. No power to the monitor, no beep, no post, nothing.
So at this point, I start going through the usual suspects. I tried booting with the ram in a different slot each time and still nothing, I unplugged the floppy and cdrom ide cables, nothing. I unplugged the hard drive, pulled the Cmos battery, pressed the little clear CMOS button, etc... nothing. I even went so far as to pull the video card itself and still no warning beeps or anything.
At this point, I was thinking it could be the ram stick was bad or the CPU was bad or even the motherboard itself. I was thinking mabey the mobo due to the previous warnings about the fan speed.
In one last desparate attempt, I put the generic video card back in, hooked up everything but the floppy and put the memory back in the original green slot 1 and took it into the kitchen to my work space and plugged it in and turned it on and lo and behold, it beeped at me and the Dbracket LED's indicated that the floppy wasn't attached. I hooked up a monitor using the VGA (rather than the DVI which was in my computer room) and the windows loading screen was up.
I shutdown, hooked the floppy back up and watched the led's on the Dbracket as it started up and they appeared to go through a sequence of checking everything as they all were flashing green to red and then all green and windows was up and running as normal. At this point, I'm still holding my breath just waiting for it to lock back up and give me grief again but it never does.
right now, I'm at work and it's sitting next to me and has been running stress tests for the last hour and a half without a hitch. CPU temp is peaking at around 53*C.
When I get back from lunch, I'm going to run memtest and spinrite 6 to make sure the HDD is good to go and after that image the hdd for backup purposes.
I'm hesitant whether or not I should tell my dad that his machine is finished becuase I don't know what in the world went wrong last night. In my experience, when something fails, it's not going to work again. I haven't tried running fear again. I actually uninstalled it as he'll never use that but I was wondering if you guys could offer any ideas on what went wrong?
I'm going to image both this machine and his old machine before I wipe his old HDD and put it in this new one just in case something does go wrong again, I can just pop the old HDD in his old machine, load the image and minimize down time while whatever parts need to be replaced are out.
Thanks for any suggestions or ideas!

I had already planned on that. I don't know if it was one of those that caused the problem or what but I'd rather it not be there at all than lurking in the background.
Memtest came up with no errors, stress tests passed fine (for now) and spinrite is about finished with zero hdd errors.

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