Weird system freeze

[zetasmack]

I know that almost no one is going to be able to help me, but its worth a shot, i have a fairly powerful system, 1ghz athlon, 768mb pc 133 ram, and an ati radeon card with 64mb ddr running windows xp. every time i try any dvd ripping i run into the same problem. when it comes time to encode .vob->.mpeg my system just freezes, no warning, no messages whatsoever, just a total system halt. i can't figure out what it is, please, any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. are there any programs i can try other than TMPGEnc or DVDx or flask? anyone with a similar problem? please, i'm desperate here, haha

[hazchem]

let me ask dus ya system freze anywhere else like playing a game etc? if so get a better fan myself i use smart ripper...dvd2avi....tmpgenc works fine for me

[zetasmack]

every once and a while it freezes while playing a game, its also running on a 7200rpm 80gb hard drive, think that might have anything to do with it? its defragmented

[zetasmack]

i cant believe it, i finally figured out what it was, my system was running too hot, i opened the case and put a tabel fan up to the openning now it runs fine, guess i need to pick up a new heat sync for the chip, anyone know any good sites?