Sounds like hardware to me as well. One of my workhorses just died after three years of faithful service. It had started getting random lock ups when it never had them before (even on fresh OS installs), and weird bugs in software that had been stable for ages. One day I had just finished compiling something, I tried out the new software and it was totally buggy and I thought "well that's a shit program" and then the motherboard died, total meltdown, even the door on the cd drive wouldn't close. So you might want to back that machine up.
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