Gaming Woe

Nvidia GeForce 260 GTX
M2N-E Asus Mobo
3gb Ram
AMD 6400 CPU
Windows 7 Home 32bit
Edit: PSU 600 wat OCZ stealth extreme
Alright, here is my problem.

I go boot up the game of my choice, it works! Great golly we solved it Wrong, depending on what kind of mood the little gremlins are inside my computer the game crashes! It doesn't seem to matter what game, it will crash.

What are the errors you ask? I would love to tell you but you see when the game crashes... So does everything else, Under some very special circumstances I get to go to the desktop to notice an error that my Nvidia driver has stopped working. Low and behold I guess that's my problem, considering that when it crashes I get strange artifacts in the games "sometimes" or the game just freezes all together. Oddly enough it take about 5 minutes to 3 hours (depending on the mood of the gremlins)

So I did what any logical person would do I rolled back to older drivers. But the problem persisted. So I rolled back further, still the problem persisted.
(at the time I was initially using Win7 enterprise 64bit)

Getting frustrated I figured "Okay, so I never had this problem in XP" Went back to XP Sp3, latest drivers problem persisted. Rolled back, etc etc.

Okay fine, I go to Win7 home 32bit, did that same as last time... FAILED!
Xp Sp2... FAILED!

At this point I was about ready to throw my computer out the windows (pun intended)

But I got a clever idea (which failed) Use third party drivers.... Didn't work.

Then I checked and tried Priority, made my programs use One core instead of two, boosted fan speed to increase circulation Tried the fixes online.

One final note I almost for got I got a BSod a few time 0x0000007 I think. But I don't understand why I would get that error when I've never gotten it before.


So, My fellow geeks! I come before the alter of great knowledge pleading for help to end this gameless plight. Before it's TO LATE! Before the unthinkable! A graphic designer LEARNS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE! *dun dun duuuuunnnn*

Anyway, Thank you in advance for any help anyone can provide.


Your lord and master

Archiver

 

0x0000007 is usually a hardware problem. So some of your hardware could be dieing. I'd guess ram or the video card. Start out by cleaning the inside of your case of any dust, then remove and reseat the video card and the memory and try again. If it still happens try to figure out if it's one of your ram sticks by taking one out at a time to see if it still happens. If it's not the ram hopefully you can get your hands on another video card to try for a little bit to see if that is the problem. Also if you could try using a temperature monitoring software and post your temps that could let us know if heat is an issue with anything. Also you're not overclocking are you?

 

No, I have not overclocked. Thanks for the info. ( honestly wondered why I didn't think of cleaning my case)