Absolut Soul

I have exactly the same problem, I'm trying to figure out what's going on.

"tnecro" wrote:

> 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.
> > >