Stabillity Issues? BIOS perhaps?

I used to own a crappy K7S5A. It was good for its time and it did it's job it was a solid board. The second I installed a brand new A7N8X-X to replace my old ECS board, I had issues with crashes in T:V.

I had my client crash to the desktop alot, lockups etc. I updated my BIOS and I had no problems. 100% of the lockups were phased out completely, and I noticed I didn't have as much of a problem with my fps going down. It's pretty obvious that the motherboard has as much of a stabillity bearing as the CPU, Video Card, and RAM. Just in service to the devs, which are working on client optimisation and stabillity at this point: Please list your motherboard model, and BIOS version then comment on the stabillity of T:V, then try updating your BIOS to the latest version and try it out.

K7S5A: Unpatched, Ran extremely well. No lockups.

A7N8X-X: Unpatched the game was near unplayable, if it wasn't a crash to desktop it was a lockup or random reboot.
Patched(rev:1010): The game ran as well as my old mobo and maybe a bit better. I've had no lockups or crashes whatsoever after playing the game for 6 hours off and on.

Only trouble is the k7S5A was a cheap Shody mainboard, IDE likes to go. I have replaced hundreds of em in and out of wtty. If you have one that still runs your damn lucky!. Dunno if you know this but when that board was new cost on em was like 41$. Just look at your IRQ's in bios (no matter what you set em too) that board is posessed. Not to mention the VIA vs nForce2 issue!

I've had 3 of them on all my old PC's and they have had 0 problems with them. I ironed out the IRQ conflicts on the old, I dunno what kinda problems you had. But I never came across em.