System Freezing-up, Can anyone help?

[jet292]

Please Help,

Built my first system and having problems with it freezing-up when I play all video games (Splinter Cell, NASCAR, IGI to name a few). When it locks up I have to unplug it to restart. Works fine when doing Word proccesing or online. If anyone can help,it would be greatly appreciated. THANKS

Intel P4 3.0g 800fsb
Corsair TWINX DC 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400mh
Gigabyte 8KNXP Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb 8x AGP Video Card (Driver Ver 6.14.10.6378 Date 8-12-2003)
2- WD 36GB SATA HD
16x Sony DVD
Plextor Premium CDRW
Windows XP Prof

 

[Harvey]

I don't know enough about your motherboard to know if there are any known RAM dependent issues with it, but if it allows you to set your RAM timing to something slower, for example, as PC2700, that would tell you if your RAM is the problem.

Have you run any diagnostics?

 

[jet292]

No. I dont know which program to use to run a diagnostic. Do you? and where can I download it at? Thanks

 

[Harvey]

If Norton System Works runs on XP, it may help. That's what I use, but I'm running Win98 SE. There are other system tester's as well.