Neo2 won't post -- hangs on "Processor initialization"

Well after 6 months of my new computer running just fine, it's suddenly starting to crap out on me. Every so often over the past 2 months, my computer would fail to boot up and the DBracket LEDs would hang on the code for Processor initialization. The monitor light would stay orange and never recieve a signal. But I'd simply reboot and it would work.
However, 3 days ago I went to install a wireless card (DLink Wireless 108G) and the drivers weren't installing properly and it wasn't being recognized. When I rebooted, it started to hang on Processor initialization again. After reconnecting the power and reseating the card many times, it still would not boot. So I took it out and it booted up just fine.
Eventually I got the card installed properly and it worked for a day and a half (with a few lockups), but then the problem came back. I've since removed the card completely and have been troubleshooting from there.
It boots about 10% of the time. If I keep trying over and over again, it never will. But if I let it sit for a while then try, sometimes it works. If I take out my GPU, it works every time. One time it wasn't working and i took out a stick of RAM and it decided to work. After browsing this site for a while I decided my PSU was probably going bad (was 400w with 20A on the +12 rail), so I went out and bought a new Antec Truepower 430w. Sadly this fixed nothing.
I'm pretty confused because I can't narrow it down to the exact cause as sometimes it just happens to work. So nothing is completely broken.
Some things I've tried:
Reseting the BIOS with the jumper.
Reseating the GPU (sometimes this worked)
Reseating the RAM
Unplugging all connections and redoing them.
Also, all fans spin properly on every boot attempt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well I tried using an old graphics card (geforce 2 mx I think) and it worked sometimes, didn't work others. Right now it's tending to not work, so i'm thinking it's the motherboard.
Maybe I'll try getting a new battery, as it's a lot cheaper than a new motherboard at least. But I'm curious, why do you think it's the battery?

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