Correct my friend.
It was common problem with vista users in the early days. Typically bad or unstable
drivers were the culprit and there was also some talk that the factory overclocked cards would caused the
driver to crash. I'll see what EVGA has say, but I would suspect they will direct me to nVidia since they would assume this is not a hardware issue.
I forgot to add that I also experienced this with the previous Windows 7 Build, even after a clean install the problems persisted. That does make me think, my first GTX280 *stock clocks* had no issues with previous build. I'll bring this up with EVGA and see if they can't provide me with a stock bios and see if it might fix the problem.
Thanks for the reply,
Eagle Eye