I apologize for the longer, but let me give you my last few days.

Within the last week I noticed that at times while playing (multiple games), the fan in my case would go to high and the screen go black - it wouldn't stop on its own without me killing the power. But it'd then boot just fine once, so stupid me kept going.

Then I noticed that my video card would get "error 43" or something like that. Tried to reinstall drivers, move to a new slot, etc, but nada.

Popped it out and put in my old video card. And it works fine (both in the new and old slots) and I don't experience the sudden fan. Well, until just now. Goes on but rather than going black, I get black and white lines on the screen - like a test pattern or something.

Now its done it a few times when just starting Windows - I get into login and then it goes off. And now a few times while even trying to boot. I tried to get into the BIOS and the first time I couldn't even get that.

But when I take out the video card, I can get into BIOS. But now I can't seem to get it to find my "boot" drive (which is a SSD). But I've had this problem in the past - go into BIOS a few times, reboot a few times and then its fine. But I wonder now if its been a lingering problem I've never noticed.

So...is it time to shop for a new motherboard (and might as well upgrade the CPU too...)

Thanks all!