Games/MS Office got minimize while playing, please help!!! Thanks!!

 

I just bought a Dell Dimension E510 3.4G/ 1G RAM/256M nVidia 7300LE. The system is pretty much top of line. However, when I play games on this system, about every 20 mins the game will get minimize for unclear reason. It does NOT happen when we play

the same games on other system. FYI – the games that we are playing are Battlefield 2, Empire Earth 2, and The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II. Even know both games and OS (Win XP) did not crash, but it’s very annoying problem. This tells me that the system is very unstable. Btw, we only play these games locally; we don’t play online (which requires more system resources).

 

I even did another experiment: Ie 5 IE Explorer, 5 MS Words, 5

Excel, and 2 PowerPoint maximize in my system. I let

the system running for about 2 hours. I when I checked

after 2 hours, guess what happened: THREE of the MS

Words AND Excel, ONE of the PowerPoint got minimize!!!

 

Does anyone out there have this kind of problem?? I contacted Dell, but they basically blamed on the software (How convenient, huh?), which I don’t buy it! I’ve to

emphasize that when we played aforementioned games in

other system, it worked fine. The other machine does

NOT minimize the game every 20 mins. I can even tell

you that other machine is not as high end as the one

that I bought. I’ve been using computer for a long long long time, but I didn’t see anything like this happened before. I believe there is something wrong with the hardware (maybe the motherboard).

 

Anyone who countered this problem, please leave me a message. I greatly appreciated your help!!!