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Help: My system has the hickups!

M

Marquard

Junior Member
I'm having a problem with my Pc. It recently starting having "hickups", thereby meaning that it freezes about every minute or so - for about 1-2 seconds. I've made no changes to my hardware-setup, and the problem just started occuring. It occurs in games, watching movies, music and even just web-browsing, where the mouse just freezes for a few seconds, and then everything's fine again - until about af minute later. I can se in task manager that the CPU-load spikes every time this happens.

I suspected either a virus or a drivers trying to detect a device or something. I therefore disconnected all non-essential devices, scanned multiple times for virus and even reinstalled my operating system (I've tried both WinXP SP2 and Win2000 - same deal). So now i'm really out of ideas, so I'm hoping some of you might have a clue of what could be the problem? Defect harddrive? Controller?

Thank you in advance.

Specs:
2,4ghz P4
MSI 845 PE2 motherboard
3 HD's (IBM, 2 x Seagate)
1gb RAM
Radeon x800 XT
 
How old is the main hard drive that you are using? It could be that it is wearing out. I have the same problem on my old one when watching DVDs, just haven't gotten around to picking up a new hard drive yet. That's about all the ideas I can come up with. Btw, what's your temp as far as CPU/case ambient goes?
 
Thanks for the reply Hermdogg.

Well, it could be the HD, but the problem is there even when i play movies from other harddrives than my primary.

I've tried testing with different ram-slots, unplugging everything and checking that every HD, CD-drives etc. is connected properly.

The temp is normal and the room where my Pc is, is pretty chilly, så that's not the issue eiter 🙁
 
Have you tried a different video card or PSU? It could be video-related because it happens all the time, or it could be that your PSU just can't handle the load. In any case, I'm sure MechBorgon will be able to troubleshoot it when he gets on.
 
Are you using an IDE RAID controller? Just curious... you might want to see if there is a BIOS update for your motherboard. Check Event viewer as well to see if there is anything logged by Windows.
 
I tried switching around on my HD-setup, and it turns out that it's my RAID-controller that's the problem. If I remove the the harddrive connected, or just connect it to the normal IDE-controller, everything runs fine now as far as I can tell.

Only problem is, I have more drives than my two IDE-controllers can handle, but at least I've located the problem.

Thanks to you all for the assistance 🙂

Guess it's down to buying a new mobo or simple caugh up and buy that new AMD 64+mobo I've been itching to own 🙂
 
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