Well I reloaded the newest bios again and afterwards took out the MB battery and did a clear cmos.  Booted back up and reset all the BIOS settings from scratch.  So far it seems to be running more stable.

I will probably do a clean install at some point in the near future...but I have some video projects to get done and my DAW is also my video editing machine.

Thanks again everyone for the tips.

That's a cool trick. If you get a chance can you explain what exactly that is supposed to do?

Beep...it was just something that I had read on the ASUS webpage.  Actually, it was a note in the bios download notes just one version prior to the latest one.  This latest version didn't mention anything about this (it has something to do with the CPU mentioned below)....but the prior version stated....

[font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; "]     * Enable support for Intel Next Gen 22nm Processor E1 stepping MP version CPU.     *Please update Bios twice when update from previous Bios version, then need CLRTC.


I figured it couldn't hurt to do this on my latest bios rev. so I did.
The CLRTC = clear the cmos

I don't know where that formatting stuff came from....it wasn't in my post....but showing up because I copied and pasted I suppose.  :)

Thanks. I'll have to keep that in mind for when I wipe the system. I don't recall that being mentioned when I did my original set up. Maybe it's specific to your board model but any extra stability is good. Cheers, man. Glad it's working a little better for you.