Games freezing, I need to do a hard reboot.

I am running windows 7 64-bit, and I have various games just gel with a constant buzz audio.  This produced so far in Bad Company 2, COD4, CODMW2.  It will happen random; sometimes 2 minutes in the game, sometimes 2 hours.  I tried to roll back my drivers display and loading all of my default settings in my BIOS and still no cigar.  Please help, this is driving me crazy.

If it's important, I have a shuttle with an e8400, xfx 8800 GTS 512 MB.

 

 

 

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