Sorry for being late to your post rockhardy
Did you try to connect the monitor to another PC or laptop?
- If yes, and the problem was still occuring you have a broken monitor.
- If yes, and the problem did not occur anymore you might have a broken motherboard or graphics card (depending on which port you connected your monitor on)
- If no, go ahead and do it NAO!
I read that you moved your RAM around a bit. Be sure to keep your RAM modules in Slots 1 and 2 (usually coded in colour you will have to google that cuz i cant be arsed to explain right now:P)
Also dont flash your BIOS if everything works fine. Flashing BIOS is only needed when trouble occurs. Like no internet connection, adding features like network booting etc etc (things you need and things u need to fix) the reason im pointing this out is mainly because if you do it wrong you can go shopping for a new motherboard (or if you are tech savvy a new bios chip) Usually flashing BIOS wont help your temperature readings. Its usually sensors on the board that are either malfunctioning or simply not featured on the board.
Also i read the topic partially so i might have missed a few things that you tried or where mentioned by others and accidentially mentioned myself again lol.
Anyway im not that active right now since im interning at a big ass energy company doing IT service desk stuff repairing shit other people broke.. lol