My system was 100 % stable prior to the bios update. I had the 1008 asus SLI bios. My system was overclocked but rock solid. I get the latest update, 1012 I believe, and all the sudden my windows won't load etc, eventually telling me to repair it because it's missing critical files. I install windows over my HD again, back stuff up to DVD's, and do a clean format. During the installation process, it freezes and dies, telling me it can't continue. This happened about 3 times...meanwhile I am in the bios playing around with settings, even clocking my computer to stock speeds to make sure nothing is hampering the installation. Finally like on the 4th try, I get windows installed, but it just kept freezing and rebooting...eventually leading to another major system crash. I went to my other PC, got my old bios and drivers etc...reloaded my old bios, changed all my settings to their original way...and reinstalled again. Everything was smooth, until I installed warcraft 3 TFT. Started a game online, 5-10 min in, the game starts to freeze and continue, freeze and continue, some wierd distortion crap...then suddenly it freezes and crashes my system...so I push the reset button and boooooom...missing DLL's, can't load windows...recovery doesnt work either...format reinstall again...now here I am...warcraft 3 is still crashing my system, magically getting into windows though. My sound card driver already got corrupted though as 80 % of the settings wont function at all like EAX etc...(its a sound blaster audigy 2 ZS plat) My network is also acting gay as everytime windows starts its accquiring a network address, even though my net works perfectly fine...
I dunno now what the problem is....is the hard drive messing up, is it the vid card since the problem seems to be in games....or is it some kind of memory leak? I have no clue...