ok, long story short, my system is locking up after running for a period of time. I *just* finished formatting and reinstalling windows xp to eliminate that as a direct cause. When the system locks up, even the keyboard doesn't respond (the numlock key will remain in its current state). The fact it's a clean install and…
haha, my brother had this issue... Then again it WAS an ECS mobo haha.. He seemed to have issues with everything... he'd have system hangs, when he started games it'd go blank, when he played music it'd just sit there. He bought all new components, returned the "Broken" ones. Turns out his mobo was just b0rked.