T61 Freezes with Windows 7 Ultimate

I have had my Lenovo T61 7662CT since May 2007. It used to run fine with Windows Vista Home Premium. Until I installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Generally it operates fine, but every now an then (about every 15-30 minutes) the OS just freezes, there cursor turns into the busy icon (rotating ring thingy) and everything becomes non responsive. The freeze lasts for about 45 secs - 1 minute and then it unfreezes and goes back to normal. It does not happen during any specific activity, I've seen it happen during video streaming, page scrolling, switching through browser tabs, going through my desktop based photo gallery. It's terribly annoying.
This is what I have tried and has not worked for me:
- I have tried re-installing Windows 7 more than two times but the problem persists.
- I updated almost all my drivers (incl. NVIDIA graphics driver) to the latest one from the lenovo t61 driver downloads but the problem would not go away.
- Halted all spyware and virus scanning services running in the background.
- Even after a fresh windows install (with no extra applications installed), I see this issue.
Btw. Windows Vista and Ubuntu run fine (and even Windows 7 Beta ran fine).
Hoping anyone else seen this issue with a Lenovo T61 7662CT and has found a solution. I love my laptop but this issue drives me nuts (and please don't make me go back to Vista)
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