So I bought some new memory and now am running 1GB of RAM. But I am still having problems and really don't know what else I can do without taking it to a professional to have it serviced.
It's only frozen up once since I put the memory in yesterday but I wanted to see if it fixed the initial problems I had with it. I used to play that NHL 2004 game and haven't in a long time. I re-installed it today to see what it would look like and it's actually allowing game play now, but the graphics are just messed. This is a screen shot I took from the game.
This is with a new DVD burner installed and a new graphics card as well, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT. Drivers were updated today for the card. I actually don't even want to play this game, just to fix what is obviously a problem. The only other things I can think to be replaced are the power source, hard drive, processor or motherboard. If that ends up being the case, I should have just bought a new computer to begin with.