PC Games locking up

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#1 kidokoro
Member since 2004 • 912 Posts
My pc games are starting to lock up, everything freezes & the sound starts to loop. Only way out is a hard restart, any ideas?

I'm using an nVidia G-Force 6800 512mb AGP
1gb ram (1x 1gb PC2700  DDR 333MHz)
Windows XP blah blah
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 2.1ghz processor (haha)

What else do you need to know?
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#2 jfelisario
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That is kind of indicative of the video card heating up.... hmmm..... i had that problem, i put a vga slot cooler in my system and it stopped hanging up.
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#3 kidokoro
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Oh wow, I didn't think of that I'll try that out. Thanks for one solution
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#4 jfelisario
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no probs bud.