Freezing in OSX and in hardware test and in windows...

I called Apple today, after waiting for half an hour a guy told me that there is no known trouble with the iMacs freezing. How can they deny this issue?
Anyway he made me run a hardware test and the computer is freezing while even doing that.
Additionally my Windows Vista partition is now freezing as well.
What to do?

I don't understand "Additionally my Windows Vista partition is now freezing as well."
Do you mean Windows Vista freezes as well, or you can no longer boot to Vista from Bootcamp?

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