Re: Intermittent Slowdown on new PC

On 2 Aug 2005 03:45:54 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,
kriskirk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I've just put together the following PC:
>
>AMD Athlon 64 3000+
>512mb DDR RAM
>Gigabyte K8NF9 Motherboard
>200gb Seagate SATA HD
>60gb Western Digital IDE HD
>2 Pioneer 107D DVD Writers
>GeForce 6600GT 128mb PCI-E
>
>Everything works, except occasionally the PC 'stutters' for maybe a
>second and then goes back to normal. This has happened when I've been
>playing a game, playing a DVD, or just dragging things around the
>desktop.
>
>I've never come across a problem like this before and I'm not sure how
>to go about finding the problem. I'm assuming it's hardware because I'm
>using almost identical software to my other PC (apart from the drivers
>for the hardware) which works fine.
>
>Short of replacing each piece of hardware one at a time, does anyone
>have any suggestions on isolating the fault?

Try Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com and see if any
particular program/process is acting strange.

Verify that your drives use DMA.

Try other drivers for the audio.

How long have you left the computer on? This computer acts a bit
strange when it's newly started (w2k-install from autumn -00...) but
gets better after 10-20 minutes... I know, i should reinstall the OS,
but since i rarely reboot, it's no big problem. Yet. :) If you leave
your computer on for a while, some program, service or driver might
crash or stop running when it gives up trying to do whatever it's
trying to do.

Sometimes an installation can go wrong even when it shouldn't... so
try reinstalling the OS from scratch. Might work. Stranger things have
happened.

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