8600 GTS freezing during gameplay

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pro120

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I Just completed this build about 2 months ago. The computer runs flawlessly in Vista, but whenever I am playing any games i.e. (Crysis Half Life 2) it freezes and vista tells me that my Video Card Driver Has Stopped Responding then it recovers and depending on the game I can sometimes actually recover where it froze. I tried different legacy power cords in my case in case it was a power issue. My video card temperatures are normal even when running crysis. I downloaded the official drivers, I used beta drivers from guru3d.com, I installed the new SP1 for vista which nVidia claims is supposed to help stability. Nothing seems to work. I'm inclined to think that its a video card problem considering the message from Vista, but I wouldnt be able to say it is for sure. Here are my specs.

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Abit IP-35 Pro With the Intel P35 chipset
(2) 1 gig sticks of dual channel OCZ Platinum DDR2
nVidia 8600 GTS 512 MB
Windows Vista 32bit Service Pack 1
DirectX 10

Forgive me If I have left any information out that might be helpful.
 
It sounds like the video card might not be getting enough power.
What PSU have you got and how old is it?
 
I was having freezing in games and in windows with my 8800GS, downloaded the
174.74 beta drivers and all is well :D
 
My PSU is a little sketchy I have a 500W RaidMax that came with my Smilodon Raidmax case. My voltage readings seem to be normal and stable. I installed the 174.20 beta drivers ill try 174.74 as well.
 
If you can give another PSU a try, it may help you find the solution quicker.
 
after installing 174.74 it continues to freeze but recovers back to the game in about half the time now. Tried a friends corsair modular 600W psu same problems. Clean sweeped all previous drivers and re-installed as well.
 
Did you install the motherboard drivers?
(need to ask this as some people forget :))

If you are overclocking the CPU, can you check that your PCI-E bus speed is locked at either 100 or 101MHz?
 
Not overclocking at all on my end. I have the newest beta bios and chipset drivers installed as well. After researching the pci-e bus frequency I tried changing it from 100mhz default to 101 mhz problem persisted and i changed the frequency back to 100
 
Hmm, struggling here,.
Is there any other strange/unusual behaviour it has exhibited?

Can you try using a very low FSB (just to test) and see if things improve?
 
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