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[Panic412]

I have a recurring lock up issue with my PC.  It only seems to happen when I'm playing a game(has happened on DA:O and ME2).  It locks up and the only thing that works is the reset button.  However, when I reset, it locks up on the boot screen.  Two different things seem to help:

1) Shut it off and come back after awhile or
2) Dissconnect and reconnect my SATA cables from my hard drives

Things I've tried:
1) New hard drive
2) Formatting hard drive

I've checked temps in the bios screen on startup and CPU temp is about 50 Celcius.

Here's my system:
EVGA 680i motherboard
Intel Q6600 2.40GHz proccessor
2 GB of Corsair RAM
Antec 600W PSU
BFG 8800 GTX single graphics card
WD 150 GB hard drive
Hitachi 320 GB hard drive

Maybe bad RAM?  Thanks for your help in advance!

[Anbu_BD2021]

could be bad ram, easy to find out if you have extra sticks around or you can just run a memtest... also make sure that its seated properly (i know it sounds basic but ive seen that cause issues). it might be that you have too many other things running at the same time and its freezing up because it can't process everything at once (though if you recently reformatted your HD then you probably don't have a whole lot running in the background).

If messing with the sata cable helps, it could just be a bad cable/connector but that doesnt seem to make much sense with the fact that it only occurs when playing a game.

[Panic412]

yeah i've tried different sata cables just to be sure, im gonna try a mem test. i also just remembered my RAM came with a fan, but I removed it awhile ago. Thanks for the advice!