I should note i ran prime95 and memtest on it again tonight and found no errors.
Tried to install XP but the disc was shot. We had a fresh install of vista from when the problem first showed up and i could only get it to boot into the OS once via safemode, most of the time it would shut down during the os load.
Oh and after it started halting at 1, 3, 4 lights i swapped in the original "lesser" video card back in and it would start to post and attempt OS boot again. Wish i had a PSU to throw in it real quick. Does it take standard ATX psu?