Hi all, I've had a look through the forum but cannot find another topic with the same problem as what I've been experiencing. I was given a new computer the other week for gaming and everything was fine until last sunday. I was playing Race Driver GRID and it crashed after about 15 minutes of playing whilst selecting a car. Everything froze, even the keyboard and mouse would not respond. So I held down the power button and switched the computer off, switched it off at the mains for a few minutes before rebooting. It then crashed again just after the BIOS screen as it was loading Windows. It did this a couple of times before it would boot to the desktop. Now, it will randomly crash and completely freeze up, sometimes after being on for 1 minute, other times 1 hour. I've done anti-virus scans, registry scans etc to no avail. I've turned off any stand-by settings which may have caused it in the first place and I've checked the CPU temperature which is running at 25C. Anyone got any ideas? I've been thinking of doing a system recovery to see if that solves the problem, but that would be a last resort. Here is my system spec:
Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9400 processor
(2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit
4GB DDR2 memory
896MB NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 260 graphics
640GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm)
BIOS type: AMI (10/09/08)
Packard Bell VG300 Motherboard
Thank you for any advice in advance guys