X1900 XT goes black during games

My roommate started reporting this first, but now I'm getting it fairly often as well. After a little while playing any "difficult" 3D game (Halo, Quake, etc) the screen will turn black and not come back. I'm assuming it's heat related, but I have no idea how to find out -- nothing out there reports the GPUs temperature.
Anyone else seen this? I see lots of reports with black screens on certain 3rd party monitors, and black screens on startup, or black screens in Windows, but nothing like what I'm seeing.

I assume you're playing these games through Windows on your Mac Pro. What version of Windows? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit? Have you updated the graphics drivers under Windows? Usually if it's an overheating issue the computer will lock up, not just drop to a black screen.

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