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well gentlemen, it looks like it was the video card (my GeForce). my cousin took the computer to his house and tested the hell out of it. memory works fine, and so forth. he seems to think the video card's DDR memory is the problem. mentioned something about the computer running smoothly...

now that i look at it, the recommended memory on the motherboard's site is DDR400. i'm pretty sure my cousin used DDR533 (that's a type, right?) i'm not good with anything to do with memory, but from what i'm hearing (both here and elsewhere), that is most likely the problem.

i don't see how it could be overheating. the computer is in an uncomfortably cold air-conditioned room. it has the 6 fans, like i said. it has tons of ventilation - both on the sides of the computer and in the back. if the computer is truly overheating, i would need to put icepacks on it...

one final thing (i can't find the edit option, if there is one): the memory is 533DDR, and it's got a special type of cover on it to relieve extra heat. i'm running Windows XP Professional. sorry to leave that out.

also i left out one minor detail - the computer reboot a significant amount of times during installations and uninstallations. when i had a game installing, the computer would reboot about 2-5% into the installation. when i uninstalled a game later, it did the same thing.

i had a custom computer system built for me by my cousin. It's got an Intel, Pentium 4, 2.40 gHz, a MSI 655 MAX-LS motherboard, a GeForce FX 5800 128MB, Corsair 533mhz 2x256MB RAM (512MB total), and a 120.0 gig HDD. in addition to all of this, the system has 6 FANS TOTAL! one on the side, one...