Keyboard Turns On and Off every 40-50 seconds

I'm using the aluminium macbook now.. the one with the most basic specs.
Lately as I play Warcraft (not World of Warcraft) I find that my keyboard does not respond after about 1 minute or so into the game... then it works for a few seconds and it doesn't respond again. I noticed that everytime the keyboard goes on/off there is a clicking sound ( sounds like opening a bottle of factory-sealed water) from the bottom of the macbook. However the F1-F12 keys still work, in addition to the control, option and cmd keys.
Even after I quit the application my keyboard still does not work and I need to reboot to gain back the functions of my keyboard. Wonder if anyone can solve my problem?
P.S. Running Leopard 10.5.7. All software updates installed.

my guess is that it is a problem with the game, try reinstalling the game and see if it works.

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