Wasnt sure if it should go here or in another section so i posted here.

The problem is when playing games such as WoW and savage (only games installed at the moment) my game just freezes up for a second and the monitor goes to standby and the system locks up. Im forced to press the restart button each time and this happens alot. I happens sometimes 5 mins into the game or could be hours so im not sure what it is really.

wasnt sure if it was my psu as sometimes the one led fan doesnt spin very fast atall only the main back fan works 100% but ill post my specs let you have a look.


Ebuyer Extra Value 600w Power Supply Silver With Tri Colour Dual
512MB DDR PC2700 333MHz 184pin Extra Value RAM
Seagate ST380011A Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM ATA/100 2MB Cache - OEM
Sapphire Radeon 9550 256MB DDR VGA TVO DVI-I AGP Graphics Card
HannGs HU196D 19" 8MS 700:1 (1280 x 1024) Silver & Black DVI TFT Monitor
AMD Athlon XP2400 266 FSB 256 Cache Thoroughbred
MSI KT4AV-L SKT A 8X AGP DDR/Sound/lAN/USB2.0 Motherboard

I know its a old system but its always ran my games fine in the past :/

Hi Tages, welcome to the PCHF.

The problem with this kind of....problem.... is that it's hard to narrow down.
The power supply could be the cause of your problems...the fact that it's 600watt doesn't mean much these days - it's brand name that you want with PSU. Ebuyer Extra Value doesn't sound very promising to me...sounds very generic.

However, before we go any further into the PSU, the first thing to test would be your memory. Download Memtest86.com - Memory Diagnostic and run the tests.

You will need to remove 1 memory stick, run the test, and then replace it with the other one (you should only test your memory 1 stick at a time).


Let me know how you go with that.