I am fortunate that it’s not doing it for me during DVD’s etc but some games it just keeps happening, there are tonnes of results about this through Google but no solutions that I can find but vague references to Creative cards (every single one) and Western Digital HDD, of which I use three so that’s not the answer I want to read right now.

System Info:

O/S: Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM (Should be 4)
Page File: 1008MB used, 5822MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.5824 (English)
Sound: Audigy 2 Platinum
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1241 (English)

The worst offenders are the Company of Hero’s demo and Titan Quest but its happening way to often with all games, no dumping me on the desktop or BSOD just total freeze so I have to hard re-boot using my power switch, its driving me to drink.