Thanks for the reply I have a MSI K7N2GM-L Motherboard with 512 333mhz ram ,amd 2500 barton. msi geforce 6800 gt oc,win xp sp2 fully updated,now for the questions
1. I have no errors in the event viewer and I get no blue screen errors, I set windows to not restart on system failure and still no errors
2. I have never seen my video card temp over 62c and it says slowdown threshold 120c
3. yes all motherborad drivers are installed , i just reformated to try to fix this problem
4. no problems in device manager
5. no I have not changed any ram timings, never had to before
6 never oc'ed processor