[pchelpers] a question

Dear All, I have been trying to find an intermittent fault on a recently built 
PC.
Every now and again, it drops the power and  it will only restart if the power 
is switched of and the switched on again and the pc rebooted. However, the pc 
can run for days without this happening and then it can happen 3 or 4 times in 
a couple of hours.
Now normally I would say this is an overheating problem, but when I took the PC 
to my home and ran it, it dropped the power but when I felt the powerpack and 
the processor heat sink, they were cool to the touch.
Can a memory fault do this? I ask because I've long suspected on of the memory 
sticks may be faulty as I can't think of any thing else that would cause this 
to happen

Billy


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