klataa, thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I've been running everything at stock settings now for two days or so and I'm still having this problem. It takes between 10-15+ trys before it starts and will run. I don't think 1.5v is to high, I'm on phase and it never gets hot and was completely stable. Also if it was the q6600, I don't think that the board wouldn't post different codes (I think there is one that blames the cpu too, correct?) as it does and freezes at different spots? I don't think that 450x9 is pushing the board to hard, but maybe. Been running it at that for about a year now. I have another q6600 I can use, but I'm pretty sure it's the board. I guess its time to RMA, how's abit with RMA's?