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I just got finished building a new computer. Everything seems to run okay except games. When I try to play a game, the game freezes. The games I have tried so far are Medal of Honor - Allied Assault and Red Faction. Sometimes the game will work for a minute and I can play, but the video is choppy, and as soon as the fighting gets intense it freezes, and I have to shut it down in the task manager. I am running Windows 2000 SP2. Hardware is as follows; Motherboard - Shuttle AK37GT w/ AMD Athlon XP 2100 & 256 MB PC2700. Video - NVidia GEForce2 MX400 64mb. I have downloaded the latest drivers for the video card, and I am running DirectX 8.1. Any Suggestions, I have messed with it for days with no success. ;( Thanks

Thanks for all the answers. I have finally figured it out (I Hope). I think that I had a bad Ram Chip. I swapped the ram out with a different chip, and I haven't crashed yet. I've played several different games and haven't had choppy graphics or sound either. Hopefully that was the problem. Thanks