computer lock ups
 

My computer lock ups every 5 minutes and the sound start to get crapped when I'm playing most of my games. What can i do to avoid this crap? Its annoying I looked at google but only found useless information. Any suggestions? thanks

Perhaps an overheating problem with your mainboard/cpu/gpu ???

I have same problem, and its not overheating problem. Its nForce3 chipset and my nVidia 6600GT AGP graphic card compatibility problem.

I actually don't have a nforce chipset only have only a soundmax ac 97 soundcard. I had a Geforce mx 4000 card was having the problem since then dumped it and put a radeon 9250 instead and the problem seema a bit more frequent. and if its an overheating problem how can I fix it?

I was meaning, that this is my problem (nF3 + 6600GT)

Sorry my english is not good. I have trouble to read and writing in english.

nah No problem man . My english ain't excellent either

I bought a bunch of cds to backup all my data crap I'm gonna re-format and reinstall everything this night . Doesn't seems to be other way All I have tried to fix this damn problem has failed. and I'm Im tired ot it

Like I prviously mentioned I recently changed my geforce card for a radeon card I don't know if that had something to do with the problem I had it since the geforce card but is alot more continuous since I changed them

I'm not sure what good this will do for a hardware problem.. Check out your event viewer.. assuming your running windows.. Often times random reboots are due to heat problems or a faulty PSU. Does your new graphics card require additional 12V power? I would avoid a complete reinstall.. but if your willing I'm sure everyone could use a clean registry. :cool:

I formated and still have the problem changing some things in the bios and in the ATI control panel seems to reduce the problem but doesn't dissapears at all. I'm planning to buy a real soundcard to get decent sound and stop using this junk ac 97 sound chip eating RAM since the problem is the sound indeed and anyways soundcards are very cheap these days