[MaadDaawg]

I have an idea, but thought I'd throw this out and see if you guys (and gal) can save me some from the tedious task of trouble shooting a wc rig

My gamer.

Slower than fuckin molasses in winter. Started a few days ago when I flashed the BIOS. Flashed it again today and no improvement.

Symptoms:

slow, as per above
HDD light CONSTANTLY running effing wild
Hanging up intermittently
BSODing while gaming .. before it slowed down this much..
The ECP displays temps at stock speeds, ONLY FF when OC'd to 4.5g

Hardware:

i965 EE sitting on a wc EVGA 769 (760 /w hydro copper wc block)
Caviar Black 500g, 3x2g Gskill Perfect storm 2000mhz RAM, tri sli 285 evga HC cards

Suspicion:

HDD, BUT, that wouldn't explain the behavior of the ECP display
Second potential culprit on my list - THE CPU
May be the mobo?
Could be the OS needs a fresh install

I've had to stop 5 times now and wait for the system to come back while typing this, and I'm at default speeds.

I started the restore wizard before I started typeing this, and it's still not starting?

Your thoughts????