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games keep freezing machine ,
asus p5gd1 3.0,nx 6600gt pci-e 1gb of ram 120 serial ata all parts new
need help oh new 450 power supply too.

Welcome to the forums labig but we are going to need a little more info. Is it just one game or any?
How long will it play before it locks?
Have you updated video drivers, windows, directx etc?

Give us as much as you can, "games keep freezing machine", is tough to work with.

freezes with all games even a simple 3d screensaver updates bios ,all new drivers on video card uped my power supply to 450,disable antiliasing.still no good

What version of DirectX do you have?

lilpink x

9C tried disabling direct draw and all others then turned back on nothing

my cpu temperture is 60 -63 at idle

ran pc probe while i started 3d screensaver temp went to 78 in seconds this must be my problem cpu is over heating and shuting down but i have new fan on it from intel also im running a wind tunnel directly on top of cpu .have the aero cool spiral galaxies case

If this is a brand new system. Installing XP sucessfully would indicate that everything was accepted as good by the system.

At that point, the video card drivers would be added. This puts you at a junction of bad video drivers or bad video memory. Software or hardware.

Go to the web site and download the latest drivers and see if that helps. Usually the drivers on the CD are at least 6 months old. Check with the motherboard manufacturer if there is conflict with that video card. Bios updates will usually list what the latest one fixes.

you can go to They have a burn in test program, that will test your system for 1 hour which should be good enough to determine if the card is bad.

And then there is the question, are you overclocking?

no overclocking, windows works good just cant do any 3d games locks up all computer
newest nividea drivers ,maxtor serial ata 120 gb hard drive 7200 rpm 8mb cache.ran jam software heavy loader for 2 hours no problem.

The passmark program that I suggested tests for 3d I am not familar with the program that you ran. Give it a try,

One other thing you can try is this:

Go to Start, -->run and type in "dxdiag" no quotes--> go to display and click on test 3D

see what that returns.

well I think i FOUND PROBLEM MAYBE A TECK SAYS HE FOUND A SCREW BEHIND MOTHERBOARD SO THEY REPLACED MOTHERBOARD IT WORKS SO FAR I STILL DONT THINK IT WAS THAT BUT REPLACING MOTHERBOARD MAY HAVE DONE IT.WILL LET ALL KNOW IF IT WORKS PROPERLY.

well it seems to work ok ran 3dmark ran ok ,have been running half life 2 runs good but temperatore rise to 70c which i will fix with zelman heatsink and fan,still not inpressed with 3.0 intel nx6600 gt is ok not amazing but ok .thanks for your inputs.