sys lock in games

[veni]

System seems to lock up when I am playing certain games. They just so happen to be rugby games too. I play WRC some what reluctantly and Rugby manager the latter isnt so graphic intensive and I have a reasonably good graphic card in the saphire radeon 9600 pro. I also have a ASUS a7n8x - deluxe motherboard, 1 gig of ddr ram and an xp2000 running win XPpro. With rugby manager it just seems to quit itself and go back to mydesktop with no error message or anything, just dissappears without a trace. Sometimes however in this game as in with WRC everything works fine until it is game time then my system locks up temporarily then I get the xp error message and back to the desktop which has been resized. I also have problems installing games, I always get runtime errors or data errors and I cant install half the games I have. I have tried turning down the detail in my games yet this only works for a little while or not at all. I also have all the latest drivers for my vid card and mobo except for the bios, didnt really want to tinker with that just yet. Thanks for the help

[Lars7]

Well I had a problem kinda like yours in that after I had installed win xp...I had a problem installing games....Only half the game would go in and then I would get the errors you speak of.....I had just installed win xp and really did not think it was that.......but it was.....I did another install of xp and all has been well since......I musta did somethin or xp just did not like the install...anyway for what its worth thats what worked for me!

[veni]

Hmmm thanks for the advice I wonder if I can just do a repair or if I have to re install have alot of stuff I dont want to erase. Any other options???