P67A GD65 Lagging at Boot

I've been running this board for a few years now, never given me any problems except for the fact that my keyboard (a gaming one) wouldn't function properly prior to Windows loading, meaning I couldn't select an option with it during startup.  Annoying, but it didn't seem to important.  Eventually I discovered that later BIOS update added support for gaming keyboards and so I decided to update.  I updated to version 1.19 and I also updated a number of my drivers.  I then encountered a problem with my USB devices, which now appears to be resolved (in brief the computer claimed a phantom drive existed and that the device was not functioning properly) but I have now developed a problem at boot.
For as long as I have had it, when the board boots I get a screen with a blinking underscore in the top left and a two digit hexadecimal in the bottom right that changes, shortly afterwards it attempts to load from the Marvell SATA 3 ports (there's nothing plugged into them so it quickly moves on but I've often wondered if there's a way to stop it from checking in the first place) then it returns briefly to the underscore before displaying the MSI boot logo and booting Windows, all of this happening in about 5-10 seconds.  Now however, it hangs at the underscore page, both times it visits, for about 30 seconds each time.  The underscore doesn't blink, it's just constantly on and the number is static.  This happens whether booting from cold or rebooting the system.
Does anyone know what might be causing this, or a way to fix it?  Once booted the machine functions completely normally.
Specs:
MoBo: P67A GD65
Processor: i5 2500k @3.3GHz
RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance
GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 560Ti
Booting Windows 7 from 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
Any help that can be offered would be much appreciated.

It was this: link.  It was very cheap, bought primarily because it gave me front facing USB 3.0 ports (which are plugged into the motherboard USB 3.0 at the back).  Unfortunately, while the booting issue now seems to be resolved the stability issue isn't, I got the exact same BSOD five minutes ago.  I'm assuming this has all started because I updated my BIOS to make it support my keyboard.  Should I try reinstalling the BIOS?  Or install an earlier version?  What about the drivers listed on the MSI page (Intel Management Engine Driver, Intel Chipset Driver, et al.)?  I updated those when I updated my BIOS, I thought correctly but I could be wrong, what's the right way for me to check them?
Currently the times when it has crashed have been when I close Firefox pages (often Youtube) and when I play Minecraft.  The crashes are always sporadic and unpredictable, sometimes everything is fine, and then it suddenly goes.  A part of me wonders if it has something to do with an important file being stored on my secondary data hard drive which seems to try and spin up just before it crashes, but I'm not sure how I would go about checking for that problem, if it could even be the cause.

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    Quote from: BMSliger on 16-March-11, 00:05:11
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