If it is like clockwork, it might be a non-maskable interrupt... Try to see what you are running, and kill off some stuff as a test...
You might be "carrying along" the problem by always running a "bad" (as in poorly written) program in install after install... (I think I have some of those myself... <grin>..) Just a thought... Rick Glazier From: "Brian Weeden"
It probably is the hardware but I can't think of anything that could cause it to freeze up like that but not crash.