computer freeze up during game play

[Joshua Robbins]

Long story, short.
I just recently updated my computer hardware, from my wifes computer, which
her's was an E-MACHINE... and her heat sync that was attached to the mother
board broke off.. And it wasn't repairable Hence why I took her ram, video
card and dvd/rom and placed it in my computer...
My computer reads everything, and everything is compatible. The comp runs
faster now,only when I'm not playing Video games online or off...
I have diablo 2 which is a game i played before i placed the new hardware in
it, and it never froze up.. I also just recently bought myself World Of
warcraft.. Again it freezes after like, 10 mins of play... On both, which is
very odd for Diablo 2.

Can anyone help?

 

[JS]

Suggest you start by putting your original Video Card back in the PC and
re-install Video drivers for this card.
This should eliminate the video card as the problem.

JS

 

[smlunatick]

Long story, short.
I just recently updated my computer hardware, from my wifes computer, which
her's was an E-MACHINE... and her heat sync that was attached to the mother
board broke off.. And it wasn't repairable Hence why  I took her ram, video
card and dvd/rom and placed it in my computer...
My computer reads everything, and everything is compatible. The comp runs
faster now,only when I'm not playing Video games online or off...
I have diablo 2 which is a game i played before i placed the new hardware in
it, and it never froze up.. I also just recently bought myself World Of
warcraft.. Again it freezes after like, 10 mins of play... On both, which is
very odd for Diablo 2.

Can anyone help?

Check and update all / any drivers, especially the vieo card drivers.

If it still freezes, locate and get Memtest86+ and test the RAM. The
RAM can be defective and the defective can be accessed mostly in
games. Also, this the heat sink was damaged on the older Emachine, it
could in threoy, cuase the RAM to over heat.