I selected a ship which I wanted to move into unexplored territory. I selected 'GO TO' via hotkey (the letter 'G') and then selected a spot on the minimap instead of scrolling forever on the main map to select the destination.
The game crashed to desktop, rebooted, and Windows came back up with the "WINDOWS HAS RECOVERED FROM A SERIOUS ERROR" message.
Specs
AMD Athlon64 3200+
1 GB ultra low latency DDR RAM
120 GB SATA HDD
128MB MSI Nvidia 6600GT PCI-E video card
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 4 SLI motherboard
Integrated 24-bit Sound Blaster audio
Windows XP SP2
The game crashed to desktop, rebooted, and Windows came back up with the "WINDOWS HAS RECOVERED FROM A SERIOUS ERROR" message.
Specs
AMD Athlon64 3200+
1 GB ultra low latency DDR RAM
120 GB SATA HDD
128MB MSI Nvidia 6600GT PCI-E video card
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 4 SLI motherboard
Integrated 24-bit Sound Blaster audio
Windows XP SP2