Freezing up ingame? please help.

[JDM-Y0-]

I play call of duty 4 alot... for the past six hours or so the game has been freezing up on me about 5 to 10 min into game play... Iv never had a prob with the pc before but I will list the specs here


Motherboard: Nvidia nForce 590SLI
CPU: AMD Athlon 5200+
Memory: DDR2 PC4300 2GB
PSU: Antec TRUE 550 SPECS: AC Impute 115V/12A 230V/6A 60z/50Hz +5v +12v and +3.3v max. 530W
Video Card: XFX 8800GTS 320MB
CPU Cooler: Zalman 110mm cpu cooler
Sound card: audigy 4
Hard drive: WD Raptor 74GB
Case: Cooler master Centurion 5 with side window 1 120MM fan in front along with another 80MM fan in front with another 120MM fan in the rear of the case. all ran by a nexus fan controller.

The case is almost dust free I clean it once a week with air. I also noticed tonight that the keyboard (G15) the lights on the left side are now blinking....

The computer is only for gaming nothing else. I have no programs installed on it other then call of duty 4 and xp pro along with xfire and Ventrilo. The computer has never had any probs untill tonight. Here is my current temp's at idle.

EDIT- I also tried it with Call Of Duty 2 and it also does the same thing... If I way 8 to 15 sec it comes back from being frozen. If I try to alt+tab out of the game it stays frozen.... It has never done this befor.
Also, When it does freeze up my audio makes a steady beep sounds all the time. My Lcd screen on my g15 keyboard displays the logitec logo when it happens also..

 

[Standpoint]

Is your CPU overclocked? If so, run at stock and see if the problem goes away.

Less likely but possible is a driver issue. Maybe do a clean uninstall of the video and sound drivers, and reinstall the newest of each.

Do you have the Dual core optimizer installed? Go to the AMD website and install. Along with that, disable Cool and Quiet, usually in BIOS.

I had a problem similar when the AMD dual cores were pretty new stuff, it was a problem with some games not running well with dual core processors. I used to have to set the affinity to one core to make the problem go away. However, dual cores and games have come a long way since then, so I can't imagine that is the problem.

 

[JDM-Y0-]

Okay, thanks will try that. I did unistall the video card drivers along with installing the new one last night after I restarted the pc. I do have the amd optimizer but it has never givin me a prob befor last night. I have played well over 20+ hours of cod4 on that pc. Also everything is at stock setting's nothing over clocked but will look into what you said within the hour. thanks

 

[JDM-Y0-]

it was the video card.. /close