I'd encourage hi, to try it anyway. I suspected chrome as well and I turned out to be wrong. :). It just fixed this guy...
http://www.eightforums.com/bsod-crashes-debugging/8393-randomly-freeze-weirdly-mouse-pointer-gone-2.html#post110871
Nice one! :) I stumbled across this fix while browsing a mac forum (of all places) because I had installed win8 on a mac mini with boot camp and was seeing the same freezing thing. I've been freeze-free for a couple of days now (previous best was circa 1hour) so I thought I would spread the...