cybereality
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I am having some serious issues with my EVGA 780i mainboard. I can only get past the POST one out of ten times and when it fails it does so in a slightly different manner each time. Usually on the last SATA drive the text will be garbled random alien characters (different each time) but this one time the text came out red, which I have never seen before:

Once it gets that messed up text it will hang on that screen for a long time. Usually it will never continue but maybe one out of three times it will pass that screen after about a 60 second wait except then it will hang on the loading windows screen and never actually boot up. If I keep trying eventually it will POST up normally. The strange part is that if I can actually get into Vista (like I said, 10% of the time) then the computer is totally fine. Everything works, I can play DVDs/CDs on both drives, watch HD videos, play music, play demanding games like Crysis while recording with FRAPS, etc. If I leave the computer on it will be fine for a day or two at a time, and then just randomly freeze (and I have to reboot 10 times to get back it). Really annoying. Is the board just fried? What should I do?

Once it gets that messed up text it will hang on that screen for a long time. Usually it will never continue but maybe one out of three times it will pass that screen after about a 60 second wait except then it will hang on the loading windows screen and never actually boot up. If I keep trying eventually it will POST up normally. The strange part is that if I can actually get into Vista (like I said, 10% of the time) then the computer is totally fine. Everything works, I can play DVDs/CDs on both drives, watch HD videos, play music, play demanding games like Crysis while recording with FRAPS, etc. If I leave the computer on it will be fine for a day or two at a time, and then just randomly freeze (and I have to reboot 10 times to get back it). Really annoying. Is the board just fried? What should I do?