The problems I was having with Vista and my NVIDIA video cards appear to be a known factor.
The problems with the early ATI drivers on Vista were problematic enough to make me believe the card itself was defective: the system would freeze, hard, with no crash dump and no emergency video recovery (one of the neat new things about Vista's graphics subsystem). The NVIDIA GeForce card ran, but slowly, and every other time I rebooted it would BSOD. Eventually it would BSOD every time I rebooted, and finally just stopped booting altogether. I was tempted to believe any number of things were wrong, up to and including the possibility that the video card simply didn't like multi-processor systems.
After new ATI drivers arrived directly from Microsoft, I switched back to ATI and haven't had a problem since.
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