Large files crashing illustrator CS5

We've recently upgraded our computers to windows 7 and we're getting a lot of crashes that seem to be caused by illustrator. When our designers are using quite large files (think 500MB) the computers will spontaneously restart (or now BSOD after I turned the automatic restart off).
The computers are ACER Veriton X490G with in intel i5 processors (2.8ghz), 4GB ram, and NVIDIA Geforce 8400GS graphics cards.
It happens most often when opening a file but also at other times while hey are working on the files.
Any help diagnosing this would be very appreciated.
Regards
Bernard

Well the machines fit well within the system requirements for both illustrator and win7. Defrag is fine. Scratch disk is 320GB at the moment so that shouldn't be a big problem. Is there any way to tell whether it is a memory issue? Eg see how much illustrator is using/have a look at crash logs for illustrator?
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