New rig giving me problems

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MrChampion

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So I recently had a new comp built for me, I received the fully built machine no more than three weeks ago. I decided on the hardware by researching parts on the net, especially the threads here, and came to the decision of going through with this build:

MB GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R P45 775 R
VGA EVGA 896-P3-1265-AR GTX260 RT
CPU INTEL|C2Q Q6600 2.40G
MEM 2Gx2|GSK F2-6400CL5D-4GB (4 2gig sticks)
HD 640G|WD WD6401AALS
KB SAITEK|ECLIPSE SPECIAL PZ30
DVD BURN SAMSUNG|SH-S223F 22X

I am running Vista 64bit on this system. The thing has worked like a dream (except for the net which is due to my poor choice of wireless pci cards) up until about four days ago. That day i uninstalled the wirelesscard and reinstalled it and the drivers. Since then I have been experiencing many freezes within about 10 minutes of starting up the machine. No matter what I am doing, from games to word processing, the comp just completely freezes and I am made to manually reboot it.

I have made sure that all the drivers are up to date and have made sure that the computer is not overheating (it feels physically cool to the touch).

I guess my question, after all this exposition, is if there are any basic troubleshooting techniques I should undergo in the process of figuring out this problem. Could this even be a hardware related problem or is this software? Any help would be greatly appreciated! If there is any other information that you would need to help in diagnosing the reason for this, just ask.
 
Coupla thoughts...

1.) Have you tried system restore to put your machine back to the point it was before you "fixed" your wireless card?

2.) Are there any unknown devices in your device manager?

3.) Are there any alerts in the event viewer?
 
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