Frequent freezing - a possible (temporary) solution?

I recently purchased a used dual 1.42 ghz G4, that was running Jaguar (OS X 10.2) and immediately purchased the Mac Box Set with OS X 10.5.6, iWork, and iLife. I was THRILLED with my purchase... for about 40 minutes. Then my system froze up completely. I restarted, and again... everything was great... for about 40 minutes. Frozen again. I searched high and low for a solution, and nothing I tried worked.
From what I had read, I assumed that it was a hard drive issue. (I have 3 hard drives... the original 120 MB, a 250 MB, and a 400 MB.) I ran a few different HD utility programs, all reported that the drives were fine.
Last night, after rebooting for the 4th time, I had a flash of inspiration. I changed the energy saving setting to NOT shut down the hard drives when possible. Not a single freeze since then. Until a better, working alternative is found (or I get a new hard drive) I'm happy with this.
Please reply and let me know if this works for you... or if you have better ideas!

The problem started when I installed 10.5. Keeping the hard drives "awake" has been the only working solution I've found so far.

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Windows 7 frequently freezes during games & (end of) videos w/ bootcamp 3.1

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when running Windows 7 via bootcamp 3.1 on my new iMac (i5, 27", ATI Radeon 4850 HD) it keeps frequently freezing (completely!) when running videos (e.g., at the end of 5-10 youtube videos) and especially when running 3d games (e.g., while switching to an in-game menu after 10-20min gaming). Even though, the Windows event logging unfortunately has no entries before the freeze, I'm certain its an ATI driver issue. Hence, I tried all drivers available or suggested in discussions, but without any success. Concretely, I tried:
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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