Games hanging (NEW SYMPTOM)

hello everone, i'm facing trouble that whenever i play gemes like ashes cricket, nfs shift,etc they start well and run without any problem for a little while and then they would hang....

Plz advice.... THX



MY CONFIGURATION:

OS - Windows XP 32-bit
CPU - AMD Dual Core X2 FX 6400+
MOTHERBOARD - Asus M2N-VM-DH
RAM - 4GB (Corsair 2gb*2, 887Mhz)
Graphics - XFX nvidia 9500GT (1gb) drivers - nvidia 191.07

Power supply?
Hard drive?
Do they hang and remain hung? Or do they pause and go, pause and go.

more info

PC hangs this way...

-- if i press ctrl+alt+del as soon as the game hangs then i'm able to end process it, but then also i have to restart my computer because the graphics won't show the clear picture of the videos with some icons color changed into red cross lines.....

-- but if i'm a bit late to pres ctrl+alt+del then i have to press the restart button.... so i think the hdd hangs...



(THX for your reply)

++new symptom++

since my games have started to hang my windows media player files icon is distorted in color, by distortion i mean its like when there are no graphics installed....


Thx n advance.... maybe this will help

Likely your video graphics card is the cause of all the problems, and must be replaced, though it might merely be a driver that has become corrupted.

thanx raybay, i'll check it out and let u know..

cheers!!

Mabie its your power supply. IDK