Games crash on XP, worse, the system worked

I have problems with games crashing on my windows XP system (other programs seem ok).  This is particularly evident with Company of Heroes, but occurs with other games as well (for example Dragon Age).  Sometimes, the program quits just (with error); more often, I get the BSOD, or another complete system crashes.  It didn't happen when the system is new (it might be 2 years old now), but it's happened for the last year or two.

Interestingly, if I do a reboot of my system just before play and then do not run other programs before you start the game, so I tend not not to have problems for the entire game session.  If the computer has been running for awhile before you start the game, then I can reliable wait an accident at some point in the first 30 minutes or so.  This suggests that the PSU or heat are not the problem here.

I wonder if my sound card is the culprit - a version of the value of the sound blaster audigy 2 and while the drivers are current, creative labs has not issued a new driver for this card in a few years now.  Other drivers (video, bios, DX9, etc.) are completely up to date.  I use a processor intel E6850 dual core chip + NVIDIA 8800GTS 512, btw.

Any idea would be appreciated.

Thanks for the suggestions.  In the end, I realized that my BIOS has been on the side of old, so I've updated that and also updated the driver for the NVIDIA network, which was also old Bus Enumerator (I went through all the entries in looking for drivers device manager who had available updates when I used the update button the pilot).

I have not had an accident since.

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