game freezes

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When I am playing any game,my computer will freeze up. The only way to
correct this is to reboot the system. I have no problems with these
hangups in any other program. Does this sound like a software problem or
hardware problem ? I have installed and reinstalled both the game and a did
full install on the operating system. My systems is shown below. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks you.

Athlon 3200+
Shuttle AN35n-Ultra motherboard
1 gig. Corsair memory
Antec 400 watt power supply
Sony SDM-HS74p LCD monitor.
XP operating system
ATI 9800 Pro video card
 
Brad said:
When I am playing any game,my computer will freeze up. The only way to
correct this is to reboot the system. I have no problems with these
hangups in any other program. Does this sound like a software problem or
hardware problem ? I have installed and reinstalled both the game and a
did full install on the operating system. My systems is shown below. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks you.

Athlon 3200+
Shuttle AN35n-Ultra motherboard
1 gig. Corsair memory
Antec 400 watt power supply
Sony SDM-HS74p LCD monitor.
XP operating system
ATI 9800 Pro video card
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Have you tried different driver versions, reducing the AGP speed to 4x, and
are the chipset drivers installed?
What are your temps like?
Maybe asking in a shuttle group might help also.
 
Brad said:
When I am playing any game,my computer will freeze up. The only way to
correct this is to reboot the system. I have no problems with these
hangups in any other program. Does this sound like a software problem or
hardware problem ? I have installed and reinstalled both the game and a did
full install on the operating system. My systems is shown below. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks you.

Athlon 3200+
Shuttle AN35n-Ultra motherboard
1 gig. Corsair memory
Antec 400 watt power supply
Sony SDM-HS74p LCD monitor.
XP operating system
ATI 9800 Pro video card
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mine freezes when playing moves, dvds, watching tv etc, unless i turn
the acceleration settings right down to disable direct x. then
everything is fine. this is a 9800 pro btw. it's all very strange...

Unless i use the default drivers that came with xp, in which case its
fine. any others freeze it.
 
Brad said:
When I am playing any game,my computer will freeze up. The only way to
correct this is to reboot the system. I have no problems with these
hangups in any other program. Does this sound like a software problem or
hardware problem ? I have installed and reinstalled both the game and a
did full install on the operating system. My systems is shown below. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks you.

Athlon 3200+
Shuttle AN35n-Ultra motherboard
1 gig. Corsair memory
Antec 400 watt power supply
Sony SDM-HS74p LCD monitor.
XP operating system
ATI 9800 Pro video card
Click to expand...

Not enough info to determine whether it's software or hardware related. If
it's always 3D games, maybe your video card is overheating, or it could be
the processor, or even the RAM might be timed too aggressively. Did you
re-install all the latest motherboard drivers after your OS install? Are
you overclocking anything? Are the latest drivers installed for the rest of
your hardware? At the beginning of your post, you say "any game", then you
later say that you "reinstalled the game". Is it only one program or a
number of programs?
 
I had alot freezing on my pc before until I changed power supply from a 350
watt to 550 watt. Everything been running smoothing.
Here is my sys specs
2100 XP THOURGHBRED
ABIT NF7-S
1 GIG CORSAIRS XMS 2-3-3-5 VOLTAGE 2.6
9800 NP
60 GIG WD MD600BB-00CAA1
80 GIG WD800BB-00CAA0
80 GIG WD800JB-00JJA0
DVD DRIVE SAMSUNG 1201 16X
 
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