Computer Locking Up at Random Issue

I am having an issue with the computer locking up when the side panel is in place and I am doing windows updates where its constantly processing and lots of hard drive activity. I am kind of thinking that its something to do with possibly the processor overheating but I am not for sure and would like to ask for advice here from others who have more experience with that this might be able to point me in the right direction.
I have an MS 6590 Ver 1 main board, with an AMD Athlon 2500+ processor. The hard drive is brand spankin new just bought it today April 2nd (WD 160GB). I have a dual fan power supply (Antec 350 watt) and a fan in the front, a fan in the rear, and one on the processor.
I have removed the side panel and am going to leave it off for a while to see if that stops the lock ups, if so then i guess i can assume that overheating is what is causing this, and then i just need to find out what is overheating.
What can I do to try and trouble shoot whats causing the lockups? Anyone have any further advice?
Thanks
Doug

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I have an MS 6590 Ver 1 main board
Which one exactly?
http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=ms-6590
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The hard drive is brand spankin new just bought it today April 2nd (WD 160GB)
IDE? SATA?
Did you have any problems with the old hard drive?

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