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 freezes, keyboard doesn't respond). After the pause, everything catches back up. So if I'm typing and the computer freezes, if I continue to type, it will show up once the computer unfreezes. I've checked for spyware and turned off antivirus software in case it was a system scan with no results. Drivers are up to date. Here are my system specs...
NVIDIA ChainTech 6600GT 128MB PCI-16
GIGABYTE GA-8I915P DUO PRO 915P
SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS
Corsair 512MB DDR2-533 PC2-4200 x2 (1 gig total, running dual channel)
Western Digital WD Caviar 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer x2 (running RAID 0)
Intel Pentium® 4 540 Processor Prescott 3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, Socket 775, 1MB Cache (HT enabled)
Stock Heatsink and fan w/ Artic Silver 5
Logisys CS888UVBL Assembled UV Blue Acrylic Case (Clear)
Antec 480 watt 120mm fan ATX 12V v2.0 power supply, Active PFC, Model "NeoPower"
4 case fans (one on front pulling air in, two on side pushing air out, one on back pushing air out)
2 PCI cards (firewire card and a slot fan)
WinXP Pro SP2
I've put together several other machines and never had this problem. There are three things that I did differently this time, used a PCO-16 graphics card, a CPU with HyperThreading, and RAID0ed the HDDs. I've checked the heat and that's not an issue. I do not think it's the power supple, 480 watts should be more than enough; and I'm not overclocking. I've tried putting my pagefile on the max setting (2gigs min, 4gigs max) and that didn't help. Right now I've set it to Windows managing the pagefile with no improvement.
I've searched the boards and have seen some suggest a separate HDD for the pagefile. Would that make a difference? I have a suspicion that it's the RAID0 HDD. But I was hoping to get some other input before I unRAIDed the HDDs and started over. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
sous2817
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 freezes, keyboard doesn't respond). After the pause, everything catches back up. So if I'm typing and the computer freezes, if I continue to type, it will show up once the computer unfreezes. I've checked for spyware and turned off antivirus software in case it was a system scan with no results. Drivers are up to date. Here are my system specs...
NVIDIA ChainTech 6600GT 128MB PCI-16
GIGABYTE GA-8I915P DUO PRO 915P
SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS
Corsair 512MB DDR2-533 PC2-4200 x2 (1 gig total, running dual channel)
Western Digital WD Caviar 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer x2 (running RAID 0)
Intel Pentium® 4 540 Processor Prescott 3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, Socket 775, 1MB Cache (HT enabled)
Stock Heatsink and fan w/ Artic Silver 5
Logisys CS888UVBL Assembled UV Blue Acrylic Case (Clear)
Antec 480 watt 120mm fan ATX 12V v2.0 power supply, Active PFC, Model "NeoPower"
4 case fans (one on front pulling air in, two on side pushing air out, one on back pushing air out)
2 PCI cards (firewire card and a slot fan)
WinXP Pro SP2
I've put together several other machines and never had this problem. There are three things that I did differently this time, used a PCO-16 graphics card, a CPU with HyperThreading, and RAID0ed the HDDs. I've checked the heat and that's not an issue. I do not think it's the power supple, 480 watts should be more than enough; and I'm not overclocking. I've tried putting my pagefile on the max setting (2gigs min, 4gigs max) and that didn't help. Right now I've set it to Windows managing the pagefile with no improvement.
I've searched the boards and have seen some suggest a separate HDD for the pagefile. Would that make a difference? I have a suspicion that it's the RAID0 HDD. But I was hoping to get some other input before I unRAIDed the HDDs and started over. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
sous2817
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