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I'm actually not of the opinion that it might be the PSU (on both ASUS and M910t machines???) which is suspect.
The ASUS machine has a 600W NoFan PSU but in fact the machine itself uses around 220W total even with both monitors powered on (everything is running through an APC UPS, so I know how much is being covered by battery backup). The new M910t only has the stock 250W PSU from Lenovo.
The GTX 1050ti is rated <75W TDP, but in fact I don't "game" and it typically runs at under 40W max.
I honestly don't think I have either inadequate power (on the M910t) nor flaky power (on either machine).
But this afternoon I did download five legacy NVidia driver versions going back to early 2018 when I know I had none of this instability. There's really nothing that's been added in newer driver versions which impacts the older GTX 1050ti card as I use it, and again I'm not a gamer so am non-impacted by any game-related fixes in newer driver version.
If the latest Aida64 tweaks don't seem to help I next plan to downgrade my installed NVidia driver, in order to see if my suspicion might be valid about a newer NVidia driver version perhaps introducing some issue. I definitely seem be "much more stable" (but not yet back to 100%) having turned off screen saver and power-save mode.
Anyway, current clock (since last freeze/re-boot) on the ASUS machine is at 1 day 6 hours, and the M910t shows almost 22 hours. Been able to watch/record TV, work, remotely connect with RealVNC and Team Viewer, etc., all apparently without mishap. We'll see how long the current streak remains in effect. Naively for now it does seem that turning off all of those "lockup might occur in rare cases" hardware monitoring settings in Aida64 has brought about an improvement.