COH crashes/xSODs

First off, thanks for reading...this is my first ever online post (yea
yeah, im a noob, etc, I get it) but I'll do my best..

I put this thread in 'games' because I didn't know where else to pu
it. I'm a moderately tech savvy guy who just put together a beast of
rig... (it got a 5.9 performance score) and everything was workin
great. Notice the 'was'...that's why I'm here, lol. :cry

*I have no idea how much information ya'll will need, so I'm gonna tr
to put as much as I can. Forgive me if its too much.

In short, while playing Company of Heroes my system randomly locks up
loops the last sound (usually gunfire) and the monitor goes completel
white, olive/green, or blue. This usually happens after about an hour o
playing. I read up on the problem, and found out that many people wer
having the same trouble I was. I've tried turning off DX10 and changin
all of the visuals to 'high' (no ultra) which apparently has cured man
other peoples' COH crashes...but it hasn't cured mine. To make matter
worse, my system just crashed for the first time outside of COH today
while I was watching YouTube. Once again, an audio loop, and a WSOD

People have said that installing DX9 is the way to go, but that seem
silly to me...and whats the deal with all these new Colors of Death? I
Microsoft trying to be a bit more colorful these days, or do they mea
something

Now, I wasn't really concerned about the crashes until it happened whe
I was surfing the web---these crashes had never happened during m
marathon sessons of Farcry2, or outside of COH...until today.

Disclaimer: I'm a noob. I get it. However, even noobs need love too
even when they live in Silicon Valley! My rig

CASE: Coolermaster HA
POWER SUPPLY: Ultra X3 1000w fully modula
OPTICAL: LG Super Multi Blu
MULTICARD READER: Generic Floppy/SD Card Comb
FAN CONTROLLER: Scythe Kaze Maste
MONITOR: Samsung T260H

CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 2.6 (no OC
CPU COOLER: Coolermaster V
MOBO: Asus P6T Delux
GPU: EVGA Geforce 260 Core 216 OC (factory overclock
RAM: Corsair 6GB 1333Mz DDR3 Tri-Channel (3x2GB
HARDDRIVES: (2) Western Digital 500GB [32MB] 7200 Caviar Blacks in RAI

(1) Western Digital 1TB [32MG] 7200 Caviar Blac
SOUND: Onboard (no additonal soundcard
OS: Vista Ultimate 64 SP

(I built it myself with the help of two of my buddies...it was my firs
build, one of many for them.

My major apps are few: Company of Heroes, Farcry2 (has never crashed)
itunes, etc...I just finished building the thing a couple of weeks ago.

I'm fairly sure (99%) that I have updated all the drivers for m
videocard, monitor, devices, and have installed all of the Windows 6
updates. What I HAVENT done yet is install the two BIOS updates fro
Asus.

Obviously, the BIOS updates will be tops on my list, probably sometim
tomorrow. (I'm having a buddy over to help, I'm honestly a bit scared t
do it myself). However, I wanted to see if there was anybody out ther
that was having the same problem as me, and could shed a bit of light o
this rediciously stupid situation. Anything that I'm missing, haven'
thought of, etc?

Thanks in advance for your help

GO SHARKS! :cool

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American197