Vistas Crash

I was running SoaSE Diplomacy/Entrenchment yesterday evening, and my computer crashed, badly. It was a 50 planet, one star, 5 player game, so not too big a strain. The screen went black, and all lights went off. I let it cool down (it's a laptop, and was a little warm), and unplugged it. After ten or fiffteen minutes, I plugged it back in, hit the power button, and got no response at all, other than it acknowledging it had power. I tried unplugging it and hitting the power with no response. I then took the battery out, unplugged it, and left it alone overnight and most of the rest of the day. It has finally booted, and there are no apparent adverse affects. My question is: what happened? Is this a normal Sins problem, a normal Vistas problem, a normal combination of the two, or something I did that no one's come across before?

System Specs:

System  
  Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
  Model HP G60 Notebook PC
  Total amount of system memory 3.00 GB RAM
  System type 32-bit operating system
  Number of processor cores 2
  64-bit capable Yes
Storage  
  Total size of hard disk(s) 233 GB
  Disk partition (C:) 138 GB Free (223 GB Total)
  Disk partition (D:) 2 GB Free (10 GB Total)
  Media drive (E:) CD/DVD
Graphics  
  Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
  Total available graphics memory 1407 MB
        Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB
        Dedicated system memory 0 MB
        Shared system memory 1151 MB
  Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.7614
  Primary monitor resolution 1024x768
  DirectX version DirectX 10

 

Anyway, I'd appreciate input here. I saw mytrix's post on a similar topic, but I'm not sure it's the same problem.

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might be a heat issue as its a laptop, have you checked for newer drivers on the nvidia site? try running the game on lower quality, and/or buy a chill pad for it. other than suggestion you move to a desktop to game not sure what else i can recommend, maybe get a bigger hdd