PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!! I have spent hours upon hours talking to
microsoft support proffesionals as well as emailing nVidia and HP. they
were all useless. here's my problem:

I have an HP Pavilion zv5000 notebook with an nVidia GeForce4 Go 440
64MB graphics card. I have Halo: Combat Evolved installed on this
notebook. Whenever I play the game, either single or multiplayer, the
game freezes periodically for a few seconds. During this time the video
is frozen and the sound is kinda stuck in a loop. Now the first few
times it does this, the game usually resumes play. After about a dozen
or so freezes though, the game will minimize and I will get a message
saying that direct3d hardware acceleration is not available or
disabled, but direct3d and hardware acceleration ARE enabled. A similar
problem happens when I play the game Age of Mythology. Please someone
tell me what to do. Thanks