Though it might be a bit premature (it's been on for three days straight, I'd feel better after a week), it looks like it was the motherboard. The Gigabyte motherboard could not be on longer than about 5 hours without the hard freeze.
I changed it to an ASRock microATX with a USB header. Pretty...
I don't think it's anything to do with the port used as it does it to both HDMI and VGA. Not only that, it hard freezes, necessitating a hard reset. Power cycling the display does nothing. It does it whether it's connected to a computer monitor (VGA) or LCD TV (HDMI).
New motherboard should...
So I swapped out the processor and thought everything was going well until it did it again.
Taking the motherboard out and swapping it for an ASRock mobo. That better fix it.
Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking that it might be the motherboard initially, but after reading DMA's response this morning (before anyone else replied), I rethought my RMA attack plan. I am getting Amazon to overnight me a new CPU and will run the system for a few days to see if it...
I just finished putting together this machine. It's got a GIGABYTE GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 and an Intel i5 2500 CPU with 8 GB or Corsair 1600 RAM.
During installation of Windows 7, it had a weird video issue. I just figured that it was solar flares, so I restarted the installation. It worked OK...
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