Hey, well my computer has been acting a bit funny lately. To start off, here's my specs
AMD 64 3200+ (2.0ghz)
ASUS A8N5X motherboard
1.5 gigabytes of memory (3x corsair value-selects VS512MB400)
XFX Geforce 6800GT 256mb
Western Digital 7200RPM 160gig HD
WinXP pro SP2
Well basically what is happening, is whenever I run a full screen game for about 10 to 15 minutes, the computer starts to slow down, the game's framerate gets worse and worse, and the game hangs up every now and then. Eventually it will completely freeze. Sometimes I can get back into Windows via (the God-send of Windows) Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but other times the entire system locks up, and I can't get anything to respond. Windows seems to be running normally otherwise.
Now, I'm positive nothing is overheating, and nothing is overclocked. Ad-Aware and Spybot found a few little tracking cookies, I killed those. I doubt they had anything to do with the issue. There appear to be no viruses on my system (though you can't trust many scanners these days). There aren't any strange or obscure processes running in my task manager. My CPU and memory usage is normal. The bios has been reset. I upgraded my video card drivers today, and also defragged. After I upgraded and defragged, the problem seems not to happen as fast as it did earlier, but it still happens. I have tested in a few games, so I know it's not specific to just one.
I have been pulling hardware out of my PC to see if that would help, and going down to one stick of memory seemed like it might have done something, but I can't guarentee it helps, since this problem is so random as to when it occurs.
This first started happeneing about a week ago, but it wasn't as severe as it is now, and would only happen maybe once a day over the few hours I was gaming.
If anyone has any suggestions about this issue as to what it could be or things to try, I'd appreciate it. I'm off to run some more tests now, I'll check back soon though.
AMD 64 3200+ (2.0ghz)
ASUS A8N5X motherboard
1.5 gigabytes of memory (3x corsair value-selects VS512MB400)
XFX Geforce 6800GT 256mb
Western Digital 7200RPM 160gig HD
WinXP pro SP2
Well basically what is happening, is whenever I run a full screen game for about 10 to 15 minutes, the computer starts to slow down, the game's framerate gets worse and worse, and the game hangs up every now and then. Eventually it will completely freeze. Sometimes I can get back into Windows via (the God-send of Windows) Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but other times the entire system locks up, and I can't get anything to respond. Windows seems to be running normally otherwise.
Now, I'm positive nothing is overheating, and nothing is overclocked. Ad-Aware and Spybot found a few little tracking cookies, I killed those. I doubt they had anything to do with the issue. There appear to be no viruses on my system (though you can't trust many scanners these days). There aren't any strange or obscure processes running in my task manager. My CPU and memory usage is normal. The bios has been reset. I upgraded my video card drivers today, and also defragged. After I upgraded and defragged, the problem seems not to happen as fast as it did earlier, but it still happens. I have tested in a few games, so I know it's not specific to just one.
I have been pulling hardware out of my PC to see if that would help, and going down to one stick of memory seemed like it might have done something, but I can't guarentee it helps, since this problem is so random as to when it occurs.
This first started happeneing about a week ago, but it wasn't as severe as it is now, and would only happen maybe once a day over the few hours I was gaming.
If anyone has any suggestions about this issue as to what it could be or things to try, I'd appreciate it. I'm off to run some more tests now, I'll check back soon though.
Oh well, one gig is sufficient until I can return this stick and get a replacement. 
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