T400 blank screen during games

I have a t400 with windows xp and 3gb of ram (an original 1gb stick and a 2gb that I added)
I have had my t400 with this configuration for two years, and a few days ago I started having a problem similar to the blank screen on resume I've read about here, except it happens while playing memory-intensive games (civ4, half life 2, cod2 have all exhibited this behavior)
The screen goes completely blank (no backlight) after only 5-10 minutes in the game, and the only way to get out of it is a hard restart. I have tried all kinds of Fn combinations and tried using an external display. I've updated my bios, display drivers, and power manager drivers. I disabled switchable graphics in the bios, and the problem still occurs with discrete graphics. I haven't tried using internal graphics, but that's not an ideal solution.
A couple of the times this has happened, I have gotten a 'windows experienced a serious error' window on starting back up.The crash dump always looks like this.
On Thu 6/10/2010 7:17:42 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ati2cqag.dll
Bugcheck code: 0xEA (0x83D117C8, 0x84399118, 0x8782C918, 0x1)
Error: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini061010-01.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2cqag.dll
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: Central Memory Manager / Queue Server Module
Does anyone know what could be causing this?

yes, this would explain the error.
Hum, you probably need to send the laptop in for service.
Regards,
Jin Li
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