My 'new' machine crapped out last night... right after I commented on how I think it's probably fixed since it had been running strong for two weeks now. I fired up Unreal Tournament 3 to chase away some boredom, and it promptly BSOD'd. All attempts to restart Windows failed with the 'mup.sys' file, which I've tried a couple of things to resolve with no luck - the boot-sector's wiped out, and all efforts to repair through Windows XP (both the Recovery Console (fixboot) as well as simply 'Repair/Reload' through the installer) have failed.

I did notice that the CPU core temp was 60C, although with the new 'internal' temp probes, that's supposed to be normal. Even so, I switched direction of the airflow on the rear chassis fans to blow cooler outside air across the CPU heatsink, instead of pulling warm air through the machine. Dropped the CPU temp by 10 to ~50C, and the mobo temp a couple degrees as well. But now the power supply might be running a little warmer as a result, thanks to the change in flow. I'll probably reverse the flow on its fans also.

But for now, it's time to reload Windows, and rebuild the 'C' drive along with reinstalling all of the cool apps and games I'd been using the past few weeks (fortunately, not too many of them yet). I'm tempted to get some image-ware (like Ghost or something) and build the image of the 'C' drive once I've got all the major stuff installed and running.

Maybe next time (as I'm pretty sure there will be a next time, after this).