hello,
i recently built myself a new computer with a
gigabyte 2004 RZ motherboard
AMD sempron 2600+ (1.84 GHz )
256DDR ram
and a western digital 60 gig HD
then i recently installed a GeForce MX4000 128mb with TV DVI

the drivers for the graphics card are all sweet and it works fine doing stuff other than games, when i start playing games after about 2 minutes the screen goes blank and the computer seem inactive, the drivers are all installed properly i think and i dont think its a heating issue cause there are 4 fans installed, im really baffled about this can anyone help it would be greatly appreciated

cheers

what is your version of DirectX?

go to Start | Run | (type): dxdiag

also look there under display to see if everything looks ok.

what is the driver version there?

my direct X version is 9.0c
and my display driver version 6.14.0010.7184

i hope that means something :s

7184 seems to be the latest driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.84.html

Also: look in your event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details. Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with a crash.

in event veiwer it dosent seem to have any of the " X " it just has alot of the information ones are there anyway's which i can fix this problem with the graphics card oh and do you think it would be a hardware fault or a software problem?

I don't know. At this point all I can do is speculate along with you.

Does this happen with all games? Just some particular games? Which games?

Always 2 minutes?

When the games freeze do you have to power off the PC?

Perhaps add more RAM? 512 would be nice.

yeh thats allright mate, umm well the latest games it freezes up with counter strike half life, and condition zero and black hawk down, my computer easily has all the system requirments, i was als thinking its more ram i need and yeh i have to hit the reboot button on my pc when this hapens

cheers

Are you running XP? Service Pack 2?

Most everything I see points to hardware.

Here is a good program to get some details including heat sensors:

http://www.sisoftware.net/

Clicking the 2005 banner will get the right product for your machine.

Hope this helps.