Faulty motherboard?

[the_gamer]

Recently my PC shut itself down while gaming and when it rebooted my onboard sound was very poor quality and windows loaded a lot slower. It also seems to have to spend longer loading from the hard drive. My motherboard is a P5P500SE asus and i have an 80g sata HD. Assuming that i don't care about my onboard sound any more since i've now got in another sound card, what is most likely to be causing the problem with the slower loading?

 

[o1die]

For slower performance, I'd check for viruses first. I use spybot and spyblaster, both free downloads.

 

[Doughbuy]

Could be, but you might also have overheating issues. Since you have an Intel mobo, I assume you have a P4, and when Intel CPU's overheat, they slow down to prevent themselves from incinerating your computer, you, your house, and possibly half the neighborhood. Eitherway I would check your CPU temperature and see how high it gets. If its nothing dealing with hardware though, then its probably anti-virus and spyware, although I don't see how that can affect your sound card... shrug

 

[the_gamer]

i reformatted after the crash so it's definitely not a virus. i have noticed that my cpu temp is 5-10 degrees higher at idle (used to be 35 now it's 40-45) and i can also feel that my power supply gets hot when i play games. i've replaced my power supply since and all the voltages seem to be fine on it too but it still gets fairly hot when i play games. can my motherboard possibly cause higher temps like this? i originally thought it was my psu's fault which is why i replaced it, but it apparently wasn't