I have a Patriot computer with 6GB hard drive and a 435MHz intel Celron processor.
I am experiencing problems particularly when I play a game, it starts off fine but after a while the image starts to freeze.
Just for a split second to start with but then over the next few minutes it gets worse with longer freeze times until it locks up completely. I then have to pause it and wait, after a period of time my tower goes crazy and seems to be dumping stored memory which it has built up. It then starts to play fine for a while till it starts to repeat the process.
I have also noticed this when I am in Windows to, and also when I play a CD, It freezes for a split second then carries on after it has what I can only describe as Dumping built up data.
To my knowledge I have not added anything that would have caused this problem,
I have downloaded a program called SiSoft Sandra and analysed my system, on the CPU Dump section it gives a warning No W5501
Whether this has any bearing on the subject I do not know? If you need anything more please ask and I shall try to supply it.
I would be grateful for any input that you can give me to try and correct this problem.

How full is the hard drive?

How much memory do you have in the machine?

When was the last time you ran scandisk and defrag? (warning: if it has been a long time since you have run defrag it may take a very long time to complete!)

How much memory does your video card have?

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What else do you have running in the background? You could have a memory leak...try shutting everything else down, update your vidcard drivers and check to see if there is a patch for the game this happens with...

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