Recent content by sous2817

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    New computer pauses intermittently

    ******UPDATE****** It seems that I have fixed my problem. I'm not sure exactly what I did, but below is a list of everything I did in one night. The problem was there before I started this, and it was gone after I finished. Hope this helps... 1) updated BIOS - I did this when I first...
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    Diagnostic software?

    If nothing else Prime and Memtest will start pointing me in the right direction. I don't have any extra HDDs around and I don't think I can convince the wife into letting my one to test. I'll start with Prime and Memtest and go from there. Thanks for all the help! Hopefully I'll get to the...
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    Diagnostic software?

    Thanks...I'll try those two programs before reformating and unRAIDing. Will either program generate a report to point me in the direction of if the problem is hardware or heat related, etc. Thanks, sous2817
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    Diagnostic software?

    Thanks for the links. I'll check into them tonight. Either way it's pretty frustrating. I'm about ready to scrap the whole system and start over. That being said....could I get an external HDD, backup my RAID0 HDDS, unraid the drives, then put my backed up HDD on one of the reformated...
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    Diagnostic software?

    Hello, I've posted recently about my pc intermittently pausing, and the advise that I was given was to check the various process running, spyware, software issues, etc. and none of that worked. My next step is to start looking at a hardware issue. Are there any good diagnostic tools that...
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    Thanks for all the advice...looks like I've got a busy night ahead of me. I did find severl Norton processes that are still running even though I've removed Norton from my machine. So does my original problem seem more like a software rather than a hardware problem? I can't seem to find...
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    I've been googleing my processes and so far nothing too alarming except every single service started by Microsoft (svchost.exe is loaded 3 times, lsass.exe., services.exe, winlogon.exe, etc.) Most of the information I got from liutilities.com. What makes me nervous is that fact that they are...
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    thanks for the advice...I've got about 44 processes running, which has always bothered me becasue that seems like a lot. I'll start googleing and if I hit something weird I'll ask. sous2817
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    I've uninstalled NAV and NIS with no luck. I'm going to start shutting down processes and see if there's something weird about that. If that doesn't work I guess I'll invest in an external HDD, back up my system and unRAID the HDDs. If that doesn't fix it, it's got to be the video card...
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    Computer freezes intermittently

    Hello everyone, I've got an annoying problem and I was hoping someone could give me some insight....I recently put together a new machine and for some reason it pauses for a couple seconds every so often. The mouse works fine during the pause, but everything else freezes (sound loops, video...
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    Thanks for the tip, I'll try it when I get home. Can you recommend equavalent programs to NAV and NIS? I'd rather not go through all this effort just to have it tanked by a virus or trojan. Thanks, sous2817
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security are the two big ones. I've disabled both of them and still get the pauses. Other than that nothing out of the ordinary....
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    What to do?

    My wife has a Gateway laptop that had the same problem with OEM WinXP Pro. I fixed it by booting off my WinXP disc, going into recovery mode and running "chkdsk /p". If you have a WinXP disc it should work. just a thought... sous2817
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    New computer pauses intermittently

    Hello everyone, I've got an annoying problem and I was hoping someone could give me some insight....I recently put together a new machine and for some reason it pauses for a couple seconds every so often. The mouse works fine during the pause, but everything else freezes (sound loops, video...