Wow, I thought my memory was going to be the first to fail, after all the horror stories I’ve heard about Ballistix. Apparently not.
All of a sudden, while I’m browsing the net with FireFox, my computer reboots. Then it says it’s trying to copy the bios from the hard drive or something. Then nothing. Nada. Won’t boot. I cleared the CMOS, I removed all unnecessary components, seated each ram stick separately. It’s dead. So I guess I”m in the market for a new motherboard 
Stuff has been dying on me lately like my flash drive shows 0mb for some reason so it’s dead as well. Also all the stuff off my desktop had disappeared not long ago. Did I have a virus? I don’t know, I haven’t heard of any virus being able to destroy the bios completely in a long time. I’m really getting tired of it. Guess I”ll deal with this soon, because I can’t be without my main PC. The laptop is alright, but I really can’t do drops on it or a lot of other things
Before I totally give up on it though I’m going to *try* something I read online about putting the bios on a flash drive and boot it. If it doesn’t work, then I’m just going to buy a new one. Not a real big deal more along the lines of annoying, and I could have spent the money on something else.
Apparently I’m not the only one this has happened to, so it’s not really unheard of. This board must just get unstable for some odd reason. Going to pick up some new ram while I’m at it, I just don’t trust Crucial Ballistix.
The best explanation I can come up with is that I had my FSB running kind of high to make my memory run at 1000MHz and this caused an instability that didn’t rear its head till now, even though I ran prime95 for 24hrs a long time ago.
UPDATE
I’ve purchasesd the following components from NewEgg, the only thing that’s related to the failure is the $60 mobo, however.
MSI P45 Neo3-FR – $60 open box – Bad reviews on Newegg, good reviews elsewhere, go figure. Most seem to be related to Bios 1.3 or they don’t know what they’re doing. 
So long as it doesn’t break I don’t care 
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner – Does dual layer as well. Didn’t really research this one, don’t really care so long as it works.
Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 – Good ram from reviews.
SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ – Good review on Anandtech.
That’s about it.. Really just some other upgrades I wanted. I also bought an OCZ Keyboard because I want something better to type with, but I’m still keeping my current one for FPS games.
I suppose you could say I’m pretty rough on computer hardware, which is why I try to buy “enthusiast” grade equipment but that fails as well.
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