Kareem wroteIs your HDD led showing activity during the freeze ? How about checking the resource monitor on Win7. You can check which application is writing/reading or accessing the drive and how frequent.
During freeze time, the hard disk halts all together for a second or two then spins again. I did open resource monitor back when it was happening to see what was wrong, in the disk tab, I saw all the system processes had 0 read, and the disk activity totally stops.
AvoK95 wroteWas your Vista the factory installed Windows or did you install it yourself ?
Also , try doing a low-level format to your drive to reset it.
The windows Vista I had was original that came with the laptop. Im currently waiting for the system to start freezing again to do a format. If it never happens again, that means updating the BIOS was the main fix.
shant wroterestore fixing it etc but still was hardware issue
can you check your Hard disk voltage without opening your laptop?