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Hard system lockup when playing games.
Hello, first post here. Bought Windows 7 Home Premium yesterday, did a clean install. My Windows XP was totally broken and I couldn't find the disk so I thought I may as well take the plunge and upgrade. I now regret that decision.
I'm really pulling my hair out with frustration at this point. I use my PC for two things; 90% of its use is for gaming, the rest for watching movies/youtube. I can't play any games. After anywhere between 2 minutes and 1 hour of starting up a game, I get a hard system lockup where the only available option is to press the reset button, or cut the power completely.
I have updated graphics card drivers, sound card drivers, motherboard drivers, fully updated with Windows update, and I have spent almost all of yesterday and today trawling google finding posts from people on various tech forums with the same problem as mine, and there are a lot of people with this problem. I have tried everything that has been suggested to them. I have tried disabling my Antivirus (Kaspersky), firewall, turning off User Access Control, setting power plan to high performance, running as administrator, running with Windows XP SP 3 compatibility, disabling any sound devices that aren't my main sound card, and many more which I fail to remember at this point.
Never had any problem of this sort in Windows XP, so I'm absolutely positive that this is not a hardware problem. My hardware is all fine.
Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance.