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ready to give up (lockups are fun)
I'd like to say thank you to everyone in advance for the great help I've received here in the past and I'm sure I'll get the same in the future.
The problem I'm having is an odd one. it started as my computer locking up while my girlfriend was playing World of Warcraft. It was a total lockup and the only way to recover was a hard reset. It wouldn't freeze in stress tests or memtests or even crysis worked flawlessly on max settings. Then i installed fallout 3 which consistantly froze seconds into the opening sequence (your birth woohoo!). So i resorted to a fresh install this time deciding to dual boot xp and 7. From this i learned the problem seems to only exist in windows 7. In xp I can burn dvds no problem with nero 9. in 7 (tried nero 7 and 9) it freezes while transcoding. however my games dont seem to freeze in 7 anymore (they still could i havent really done much extensive testing since the new install.
Any advice is welcome.