Hardware failing - please help

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My display will freeze intermittently(mouse cursor still moves) for a few seconds, then goes black for a second then comes back. It's doing it more often now and sometimes will do it over and over so I have to power off. When it starts doing this, I will get an error beep from the tower. I thought maybe video card. I noticed it seems to do it more when I'm web browsing quickly in multiple windows so I thought maybe ram but that may just be coincidence. Please help. Thank you.
 
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
Abit KR7A-RAID motherboard(not using raid)
512 DDR RAM
80gb WD Hard Drive
Asus V8200 GeForce 3
Audigy soundcard
300 watt psu
3dcool case w/dual 120mm side fans w/filters



I'm guessing my only option is to swap parts. Unfortunatly I don't have any to swap in. Can anyone please give me their best guess as to the cause of my problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. I guess I'll just start upgrading one part at a time starting with the power supply.
 
I've had the same monitor and settings since I built the computer a few years ago so I don't think it's the refresh.
 
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