Motherboard combatibility advice?H

Hey all

Short story-ish here:
I'm pretty sure i've busted my Mobo somehow, while moving my AX3400 HTPC to a larger case and booting up i heard a loud spark from somewhere (i think one of the PSU wires touches the case) and since then the computer has had trouble booting up. At first i thought my PSU was defective so i used 2 other spares i have lying around the house, both worked for a short time before blue screens started happening again and the pc constantly reboots just after POST.. (my 550 just full on stopped turning on..) i brought an OCZ silentXStream hoping that i just might be needing a solid PSU to provide a stable current to my mobo (the others i had were OEM and cheap-ish ones) and when it came in the mail today i fitted it in and my PC run great!... for 20 minutes until the same BS started happening again, blue screens, video crashes and freezing.

So i guess it can't be the PSU that is the problem and i've done something to the motherboard, which is a shame i guess but it was only an HTPC mobo with one PCI slot.

**Question**

So yeah now i'm looking for a new mobo to fit in, and my question is: Is there a good mobo out there that is combatible with the AMD X3 III Processor i'm currently using AND will be combatible with the Phenom X CPU series i plan to buy a couple of weeks after? I could go 2-3 weeks without a PC waiting for both parts but i'd rather not if i could get a mobo that would work with the cpu i have too

I don't really know how to make sure if a CPU is combatible with different Mobos and i'm scared of buying one that doesn't fit my CPU

If anyone could help that'd be great

 

Here's the one I used in my recent AM3 HTPC build:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131673

Not only is it 6-core ready, it has both SATA3 and USB3 if and when you upgrade HDDs and periphials.

Remember, this board requires DDR3 memory (not DDR2). In order to unleash the full potential of the x6, I'd go this route since DDR3 is currently dirt cheap:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409

(Yep. $45 for 4 gigs )

Good luck on the upgrade.