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How old is your machine?
Try running it without the HDD and see if the freezing continues.
Could be some imminent hardware failure but hard to tell from just what you've already stated!
That's perfectly normal behavior for a Microsoft product.
What update you dloading?
Didn't check, Xbox ask me to download update and i just confirmed ...
Edit: Oh! I was playing FIFA09, so it could have been related to FIFA ...