No other piece of software can bring my computer down like Maya can...
At the most something will unexpectedly quit and I'll get the windows error msg "please report to M$" etc...

But with Maya, hardcore beeping freezes...cursor dead and all.
--reset button.

It happens only in orthographic views while using image planes...sometimes it's when I zoom out or when panning view, sometimes I'm just moving a vertex around, sometimes while extruding faces...
To the best of my memory, I've never crashed in perspective view.

System specs:
amd athlon xp 1700+, a7v266-e mobo, 512 DDR, Win XP SP1.
Graphics card : radeon 9100 pro 128 meg (saphire)

Has anyone ever had a similar problem, or can suggest what I might be able to do to fix this?

Thanks in advance