System locking up during game play...?

[Priapus]

Good morning guys.

I'm having a problem with one of my systems. it's the old one I have, that I am getting this problem with.

The system specs are:

2.5Ghz Intel P4
640mb of Ram,
128mb Geforce FX5200

The game I was playing was need For Speed Underground.

Now, while playing the game, it runs perfect. No slow downs or anything. But it will lock the whole pc up that I have to power it off via removing the power cord. The game just stops, it doesn't slow down and stop. it just stops.

So I went into event viewer and saw one error to do with a printer driver or something. I don't think that would cause the system to lock up like that.

I don't think it would be heat, the system doesnt get too hot.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Priapus]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

 

[Priapus]

I am going to take the side panle off and then run the game again and see if it makes a difference. Can't check GPU temp as when the pc freezes, I have to pull the cord to get out of the lock. So by the time I have restarted and come back to windows, GPU temp would've dropped a lot..?