Usasma,
I tried using the very driver that vista loaded for my gfx card and the
latest nvidia driver(WDDM) which is 97.46. Both drivers crashed.

I also tried disabling some of the hardware devices such as my lan card,
dvd-rw, soundcard. My machine still froze.

Chad Harris,
Thanks for the lengthy reply. I tried stopping as many services as I could.
My system still crashed. I also tried scanning for spyware. Both did not help
as my machine still crashed. I don't think that it's a spyware problem
because i try really hard to avoid spyware and my computer just came from a
fresh format and OS installation. I don't think it's the services either
because I have plenty of ram and at most, I only use up to 35% of my phys
ram.

Any other suggestions?

"usasma" wrote:

> I had similar problems with the earlier versions of Vista. Try updating the
> video drivers with the Vista one's at the nVidia website.
>
> - John
>
> "tnecro" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could someone please help me. Windows Vista froze several times on me
> > already(the mouse pointer and everything else just won't move and I have to
> > manually poweroff the computer). I'm doing all kinds of things when the
> > computer freezes (browsing, watching a video clip using wmv...).
> >
> > I don't think it's heat or a defective hardware because I had a Windows XP
> > on this machine and it works fine.
> >
> > Here are my specs:
> > Intel e6600 core 2 duo
> > Intel D975Xbx2 (with integrated sigmatel audio and some lan card)
> > Sony DVD-rw DW-G120A ATA
> > NVIDIA geforce 7900 GS
> > a Lynksis wireless adapter
> > 2048 dual channel ram
> >
> > *i'm running the 32 bit vista.
> >