OK, have you even tried debugging your application? Step through the code with a debugger and see where it freezes.

Lets work through this one step by step..

If the only difference were those computer specs, then you have solved your own problem.. but ..

The NeHe Tuts are plane text files CPP and Headers
The Compiler takes the files and inspects them and performs it's voodoo magic to produce an Executable. Compilers are smart things, perhaps even Borland Builder 6. So the problem being the code crashing the computer is not likely the problem.

Perhaps libraries you have installed are bad?
Perhaps you have a dodgy copy of Borland C++ Builder 6.

I remember in VS6 I could crash the IDE some times by pressing F7 (build) twice quickly :) But never the computer..

Aside from compilers being smart Modern OS's, such as the one you are using are quite smart also.. I've have not yet locked up XP SP2, perhaps I'm lucky.

Does other code compile OK?

Solutions
- Get a good copy of your compiler
- Get a good computer, yours is not good enough.. You need at least a DUAL CPU system and 2GB of ram to use Borland C++, because of it's Mandatory Hyper threading in the Inter-predictive type safety of the State machine reciprocals.

Or switch your build settings to Jazz mode.

I should go now.