Computer hangs when playing games

Hello ,
my pc comf : Intel P4 2.4 GHz., 128 MB DDR, MSI Mobo with VIA P4 M266A + 8235 based chipset, OS = Win98
My pc was working fine. i was even able to play games properly. last week i had tried a NVidia Geforce MX 440 AGP card. but then I was not able to play games on it because it said the OpenGL drivers were not updated. so i removed the AGP card. but now i am not able to play games on my pc. the games starts properly without any error but the pc hangs just after playing for 3 or 4 minutes. i treid formating my pc and then reinstalling everything from the begining but its not working. can anyone pls help. BTW the games that i am trying to play are May Payne, Call Of Duty, Quake 3, Hitman 2. the problem omes with all the games. I feel that the problem has started right after i tried the AGP card.
THankyou

Quote from: NovJoe on 08-March-05, 20:20:35
You shold be able to see a label at the side of your PSU and list out what you see from there.
You should try updating your DirectX version and update your nVidia Drivers. Remember to do a clean un-installation before updating to the latest nVidia drivers.
Dear NovJoe,
Ok I'll get the PSU amps but i thiink there is misunderstanding, now i am not using Nvidia graphic card. i am trying to run on the on-board graphoc chipset, its S3 Graphics Prosavage DDR, i am having a MSI mobo. i have formated my C drive and reinstalled win98 and installed all the drivers from the mother board CD but I dont understand why is it hanging while i am playing games and not at other times.

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