Wow, so much time had passed that I gave up even looking at this thread.

I'm still suffering from this problem but now I'm like the abused child who just comes to accept it. Every couple of weeks, I'll have 2~3 days with no freeze, but most days it freezes multiple times. Today was three times. I've pretty much lost my mind.

Regarding the RealTek drivers, that's interesting, although one of the many things I tried while trying to debug this ridiculousness was disabling all of the onboard sound drivers on my motherboard and freezes still occurred. I got the idea that it may have something to do with sound because one of the times it froze, my sound skipped like a broken record-- but that only ever happened once out of the gajillion times that it's frozen now.

I'll give it a shot, though. Thanks!