thanks for the reply Carl. I ran furmark for over 2 hours with no prolems and memtest86 for 12 hours with no errors. Also ran OCCT and orthos (different modes) , no errors again. My system isn't overclocked. All "reported" temperatures are fine, and there are no errors during gaming or benchmarking.All
drivers are up to date, as well as windows updates, and motherboard has the latest bios.Only the occasionally boot problems as mentioned in OP. thanks