8600gt random crash - forces hard restart

tuone

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This is the situation:

This crash happens in all games, from sims 2 to crysis, but i can't figure it out. I've handed it in twice to techs for them to tell me they don't know what it is. I'll try give you all the symtons I've noticed:

- game video freezes and then becomes very rickety/shaky
- audio goes frenetic shortly after
- mouse and keyboard are disabled
- i am forced to restart my computer
- occurs at random time of playing, sometimes i am lucky and am able to play without incident (very rare)
- when the computer has not been off for a few days, i am able to get more play out of it before crash


it has become a real headache, maybe someone can point me in the right direction