Locking Up...

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Right I think this may be a Motherboard problem but would like the opinion of others.

Basically my computer was working fine, I shut it down before going to sleep. In the morning I hit power, it gets to the Motherboard Splash Screen and just Locks Up there untill you switch it off or restart (see pic below)

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I've restarted too many times to count and it does the same thing every time.

So far It's had new Memory, Graphics Card and HDD (wanted to upgrade anyway so was a good excuse ;) ) and it's made no difference, it still locks up at the same spot

If I unplug it from the wall for a while so All the power is drained out of it and then plug it back in and try it again, it takes me to the BIOS Setup Menus and I can change everything fine, it doesn't lock up yet, go to Save & Exit, it restarts and actually gets to the Windows log in screen and I manage to log in but then it has a '1's and 0's Fart' and locks up again, hit restart and it's back to locking up at the Motherboard Splash Screen pictured above.

Specs are:

Motherboard:
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe/Wi-Fi AMD 790FX (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2.

CPU:
AMD Phenom Quad Core 9600 Black Edition.

CPU Cooling:
Asus Silent Knight II CPU Cooler.

Memory:
Corsair 8GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (4x2GB).

Hard Drive:
2 x Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB SATA-II 16MB Cache.

Graphics Card:
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express.

Optical Drives:
2 x Plextor PX800A 18x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriters.

PSU:
Coolermaster Real Power 1000w Modular Power Supply.
 
Reading you post I was thinking (at first that is) psu or memory fault but as you have changed the memory and your psu is more than enough at 1000w can't think this would be the problem.

Have you tried memtest?

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

Run a test and if errors do show up could be the memory controller on the cpu.

If you can get to the Windows log in screen BUT in safe mode can you get any further or is the result the same?

Can you borrow a spare psu this would rule out psu problems, unlikely to be faulty but you can't rule it out until it's been tested.
 
UPDATE:

Now when I am able to ge into the BIOS Setup it's not seeing either of my 2 Hard Drives. Now if it was one Hard Drive I might have played with the idea that maybe the Hard Drive was screwed but for it to suddenly not see both Hard Drives at the same time and one being over a year old and the other one virtually brand new, I don't think it's anything to do with the Hard Drives, to me now it's looking more and more like the Motherboard.
 
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