Computer frezing every 2 seconds or so....

[Saiyukimot]

Every now and again (say once a week) the computer will go into a state where the mouse freezes every 2 seconds for about a split second.

The first time it did it i thought it was something to do with hardware, so restarted the PC and it went away. When it happens, audio pauses during the mouse freeezes also, and today i did a prime95 during an 'episode' of freezing, and it didn't fail. I load up call of duty and it freezes in the exact same fassion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIh8kcfJ6Pg is the link to the video showing the problem.


I blame my graphics card for it, but then again I didn't get any artifacts during gaming just.

I've restarted since and its all fine again.

 

[Ballashoes]

I had this happen to me also, I only really noticed it in games. I believe it turned out to by my wireless internet program, it went away when I ended the task for it (my wireless still worked) but if you have wireless try ending the program. I'm probably completely wrong but just trying to help. It doesn't seem to do it anymore even with the program running so I don't know.

 

[Duvie]

look into the task manager and under processes see what is running...perhaps something in the background is causing this....

I also had an issue like this several years ago and it was related to a program trying to detect a network connection....

 

[soccerballtux]

You know I had this sort of thing as well, usually when gaming. Audio would freeze, mouse wouldn't respond, even caps and num lock wouldn't respond with the light on the keyboard. Then after an undetermined amount of time (say 3-10 seconds) it would all continue like normal.

I have no clue what's up. Have you been overclocking?

 

[Saiyukimot]

Yes, both processor and graphics card are overclocked.

My Q6600 is only at 3GHz though, which isn't pushing the FSB of my motherboard at all, nor a voltage increase is needed.

My 7950GT is at its maximum possible overclock before it gets artifacts. I've downclocked it a bit now to see if there's a change.

 

[james1701]

I would get ticks like that. I found that comes from having my memory clocked too high. I caused my computer to studder. Once I loosened my memory timings, it went away.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

it sounds like high CPU usage. Look to see, as Duvie mentioned, what may be causing it in the task manager. Yesterday this happened to me: turned out that uTorrent was going hay-wire. Forced close the app and then it was gone.

 

[Saiyukimot]

I am running my 667MHz (default 5-5-5-15) at 4-4-4-12...guess that could be a cause...

And I didn't think that I had any apps open which could cause that

 

[Toadster]

buggy driver load, have you recently added/removed somthing?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Sometimes when an optical drive is going bad, the computer endlessly tries to discover it and causes hanging. Try that

 

[Ghost Child]

Originally posted by: Saiyukimot
I am running my 667MHz (default 5-5-5-15) at 4-4-4-12...guess that could be a cause...

And I didn't think that I had any apps open which could cause that

I found that NTune was causing a similar problem here.

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: Toadster
buggy driver load, have you recently added/removed somthing?

What he said.

I suspect video drivers.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

This could be lots of different things. I had this issue a month ago: it turned out to be Comodo Firewall logging an IP flood - literally dozens of them every second. I disabled the logging option and all was normal again.

Just throwing out another idea.

 

[Cattlegod]

fyi, are you running cpuz ? It was locking my computer up. I wasted about 3 hours thinking i was clocking my x3220 too high and my system was unstable when it was just damned cpuz the whole time.

edit: sounds like yours might be a little different, my system locked up completely.

 

[xylem]

I've seen similar symptoms caused by a printer driver, but i'm not recalling the manufacturer. In that case it was happening at all times.