Shortly (and coincidentally) after the previously mentioned upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid, my PC went into a sulk - shutting down and refusing to boot up again. Pressing the Power On button caused the fans to spin up for about a second before everything went dead.
Poking around the motherboard's power connector with a multimeter confirmed that the problem lay with the PSU. £45 got me a new unit from the local Maplin Electronics - 700W rather than the 580W of the original that came with the PC (best to be on the safe side :) Fitting was straightfoward and everything seems to be working swimmingly once more.
There's a certain satisfaction to be had from fixing something yourself...
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