dref

Good morning, you ask me how many fans i was running,four,1 in front looks like a 40mm,1 on the side a 40mm and 1 in the back 80mm ,plus the power supply has it own which i think is a 40mm, i have clead out the pc,several times,the atx caseis a viper 1,i will give you a run down of what i have installed,cpu is amd 3500+,chipset came with the board it is nvidia force 4 amd hammer, i have nvidia 8600 geforce card, i am running xp pro,i have 3 hard drives ,1 300, 2, 80.and one exterior 500,4 stick of 512,2 cd rom +burners which i clean once evrey 3 months.the game started to frezze on me after i got it back from a friend,he is running vista. fear has always frozze on me,i just reboot,thats when i was told to change my power supply which at the time was a 500 watt,so if you have any idear what happening,noe i get a windoes that block the game can hear it running in the background,and this problem started when i played fear and time shift,can you help thanks again for your time.