The power supply is a brand new OCZ 600w. It seems to be working great, and I have had no problems with any other components. I put a new HDD in my system yesterday, and it seems to be working just fine also.

I did find on the Western Digtal site, where the combination of this particular HDD and the Asus Mobo I am using have had this exact problem. Complete lock-up, with control of the mouse still intact. Then upon reboot a blue screen, and when trying to repair with installation disc there is extreme loading times. I can only attribute this problem to that atm. I went ahead and installed another HDD, and I can see what happens from here.