HELP!!! Crashing to Desktop

[Betown]

I have not posted here for a LONG time

AH runs fine on my machine and everything looks smooth and nice as it should. However, at some point within the first 10 mins or so of play it crashes to the desktop!! No warning Nothing. I can then reload the program and it runs fine for a little while then does it again!!

I got a new graphics card. Still does it. I reformated my system. It still does it. I even upgraded to a Gig of ram... And guess what it still does it...
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME!!!

Betown
AMD 2400+
1gig Ram
200gig HDD
256mb Creative Labs 5600 Graphics Card
Windows XP
Direct X 9.0b

[maddog]

Does it happen doing other stuff or offline..... Has all the earmarks of a power supply or heat problem..... First check to make sure your cpu fan is turning..... I had one that was turning.. But slowly and had like problems........ What's the rating on PS?

[Betown]

Urrrr....Fumble...Fumble...
It's an ATX 12v with PFC....
MAX LOAD 360 Wats
Going to try running it with a desktop fan blowing on it... See what happens. I am currently running it with the side off the case anyway. To try and keep it cool
The board is an ABIT KD7

[Betown]

It's stupid really, I play lots of other graphics intensive games like
Need for Speed Underground. Halo etc and I have very few problems... However thinking about it, Halo does crash sometimes

[B17Skull12]

over heat of board?

[Roscoroo]

Also besides a heat or ps problem ... What changes / programs have you installed lately.. it may have taken a few days for a driver change to cause a conflict. ect

A virus can cause this too .

[maddog]

Didn't see your MB listed.... And what kind of ram.... Built a system with really fast Muskin high speed match Dual DDR ram and got the same symptoms you are experiencing....... Downloaded new MB firmware from ASUS (says solves mem problems) and all is good now......  Just a thought....