I became very frustrated with many of the same symptoms. After a great deal
of research, I learned that Vista handles system memory much differently than
XP. I too could run XP Pro flawlessly, but Vista would crash and give errors
that I could not replicate. I downloaded Memtest86 which is free and learned
that I had a bad stick of memory. Since it was new memory, I swapped it for
two new sticks and just like magic everything works. Don't be fooled by XP
working and Vista not.

"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.
>