I had a couple cheap MBs go, with a slow painful death, and had the sneeking suspicion it was the SouthBridge chipset (the I/O section.)
New MBs (and nothing else) totally solved the problems.
Rick Glazier
From: "Steve Tomporowski"
My son's old computer had a similar problem. After bearing with it for a couple of years, he upgraded and when we looked at his old motherboard, it had bulging caps.
