Thanks for the replies. We too suspected "dirty" power, however, that was ruled out as my brother, an electrician, checked the entire house out. No problems with power and all the proper precautions are in place.
I have flahsed the mainboard bios, affected chipsets, VGA bios and all the myriad drivers necessary.
The only clue that I have was a BSOD error: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
Having read many comments on this error I surmised that we are dealing with a file corruption problem, specifically, Windows' system files.
The frustrating thing is that the drive is corrupted badly enough that I cannot perform the necessary diagnostics.
The PC has been repaired (without replacing any hardware) and is working fine right now. I guess the real test will be to turn my nephew loose on the thing again.
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