Please Help!

[aldror]

I recently replaced my mother board with a new one, yippie! however, I am having an issue while only playing DDO, From time to time the game will freeze and then my computer resets, I updated the video card drivers, that didnt work, I reinstalled the drivers fresh that didnt work. So I was thinking of wipeing the hard drive and putting a fresh copy of Windows XP hoping that this will solve the problem, can anyone help me out with this problem? It didnt not happen prior to the new motherboard being installed and my graphixs card is an Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT....

[Theboz]

Ok, First you need to post a DXdiag, the instructions are posted as a sticky at the op of he tech fourms.

2nd, you said you replaced your motherboard , and then you are making it sound you never formated your Harddrive, did you just put it back in without redoing it from the previous motherboard.

When replacinng your motherboard you need to do a fresh reinstall of everything.

[Recovery]

Also make sure your MB is seated correctly and not getting electrical shorts from a screw or a bad connection.

[OldRogue1]

Cooling, cooling, cooling! More times than not a problem that only presents itself during gameplay and results in freezes, lockups, BSODs (not mentioned in OP), and restarts tends to be cooling related. When you set the cpu cooler on the chip did you use a good thermal paste? How much did you put on (more is not always better)? Have you run any type of temp monitoring software or checked you hardware monitors in the bios? Second check would be power supply... what is your new power supply rated at and how old is it? Newer cpus, motherboards and graphics cards use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat...