game crashing and windows crashing

[Ed]

>-----Original Message-----
>Hey, I play alot of games and I just got my new pc with
>windows xp pro. I play mostly operation flashpoint,
>operation flashpoint resistance and battlefeild 1942.
But
>when I play them they crash and I'm sent back to my
>desktop, I never had that problem on windows ME. Any
>ideas what to do?
>
>And second, I get the blue screen of death alot where my
>pc gets a blue screen and makes a high picthed noise
>until I reset it. It used to reset by its self until I
>disabled that. Is there any way to get rid of that at
all
>to where my system and windows xp pro runs smooth?
>.
>I have both games and they run great on my windows pro.
There are a number of patches for both games, so I would
install them and then make sure you have the latest
display driver for your graphics card. Check on line for
updates ... you'd be surprised how a display driver
update can do to help matters/besides the game patches.
You might also go in & run the game setup ... for some
reason when I was running flashpoint it was not
recognizing hardware T&L. You should go through each
game and check the setup to ensure it matches the
capabilities of your graphics card, etc.