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Well, I am using 32-bit. My setup is virtually identical to the original poster's, except that I have 1GB of memory installed, and he has 1.5GB. Having said that, I don't think it's a memory problem at all. The memory usage is modest at the time of the freezes. It seems to run with about 450-550MB of memory free under normal circumstances. I would like to get more memory for sure, but I would like to find the source of the freezing first. I haven't installed my applications yet because of this problem, so there is really nothing running that would eat memory. Sometimes it will just freeze up when the computer is idling and I do something simple, like move the mouse. But the CPU usage does spike at odd times.
I did get that message saying that my video adaptor was incomptible with Windows 7 as it didn't support at least DirectX 9.0, but running dxdiag revealed that it had DriectX 11, so even the error report seemed to be in error. Early on, the screen would go blank for a few seconds and I would get a message that the video driver had stopped responding, but had recovered. I have updated the drivers and am no longer having that problem.
My computer froze 4 times just while writing this reply. No other applications were running. At some point in my typing, the machine would just lock up. I am in Safe Mode with Networking now. Like the original poster's, this machine runs very solidly in Safe Mode and under Windows XP Professional. As soon as I boot up in normal-mode Windows 7, the freezing begins even with no applications running. Like the original poster I have a suspicion that it is the graphics adaptor. I am not using Aero.
I would be interested to find out if his new video card helped matters at all.