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No, there's no indication that any particular component is at fault.
The missing events are suggestive of a Windows problem, but could just as easily be a hardware problem.
You can still perform the first 3 steps without losing anything - but backup anyway (just in case).
If I had to guess, I'd say this was a Windows problem. But if it occurred in Vista and in Win7, then I'd have to guess that it wasn't a Windows problem.
So, there's 2 ways to proceed IMO:
- clean install Windows, or
- start swapping out hardware piece by piece