I fixed my problem. THe problem was the Sigma Tel integrated audio card in my
intel d975xbx2 motherboard. To fix it, I rolled back the sound card's driver
to the default driver that Vista assigned to it. My computer hasn't froze
from then...

"Absolut Soul" wrote:
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> I have exactly the same problem, I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
>
> "tnecro" wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > > 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.
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