dracotonisamond
if my hunch is correct it might be a driver issue
or a hardware incompatibility
and another thing do you mean a ati radeon 9600
and is it pci-express or agp
and is it a 9600, pro, XT, or SE

"John McE" wrote:

> I've just built a new computer (Athlon x2 3200 with nvidia Geforce 9600
> graphics card, and installed Vista Home Premium.
>
> The system frequently locks up completely, and since CTL-ALT-DEL no longer
> seems to close crashed programs, I have to re-boot every time. I have
> re-booted more times in the past two weeks than I did in 4 years of running
> XP!
>
> It seems to lock up when (a) trying to copy large numbers of files or
> donwloading a large file (b) when scrolling down a graphic-rich web page. I
> have three fans installed, the CPU is not overclocked and the CPU temperature
> is in the mid 40s.
>
> I have had a blue screen of death several times (Kernal_Date_Inpage_Error)
> last time, and the last Stop error number was : 0x0000007E, 0xC0000006,
> 0x94745930, 0x9474562C) if that means anything to anyone.
>
> I have read about nvidia Vista (non) ready drivers causing problems. Is this
> due to that, or is it likely that I have something else to worry about?
>
> Also, is there a new alternative way of CTL-ALT-DEL -ing a program - it
> seems strange that Miscrosoft would have removed this very useful way of
> closing a crashed application.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.