I capped a screenie of it here. As far as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason to when it has been happening. The only thing in common that I've been able to notice is that I'm always online.
I rebooted a couple times when it happened under 10 minutes, and I just had it run for a solid 30 minutes or so (while I was playing Total Annihilation) before it flaked on me. I'm really at a loss as to what would cause this, but I'm going to reboot and not connect to the internet at all to see if that solves the problem. Whatever happens, I'll update tomorrow at the latest. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
That said, here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
Opteron 146
BFG 7800 GT
2 (2x1) gigs of Patriot DDR-400 (2-3-2-5)
Onboard Sound
I think that's everything relevant; all my Windows Updates and things of that nature are up to date. I'm going to go check out spyware and viruses and things of that nature, but I doubt it's that because I don't use IE, don't surf suspect sites, and don't download suspect files. Yes, that includes pr0n.
Like I said, anything that you can think of would be a great help. I checked Google on this one, but the general consensus seemed to be that it was a result of MSBlaster, which I most certainly don't have because I didn't even build this machine until 2004 and have always had antivirus software.
Thanks!
I rebooted a couple times when it happened under 10 minutes, and I just had it run for a solid 30 minutes or so (while I was playing Total Annihilation) before it flaked on me. I'm really at a loss as to what would cause this, but I'm going to reboot and not connect to the internet at all to see if that solves the problem. Whatever happens, I'll update tomorrow at the latest. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
That said, here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
Opteron 146
BFG 7800 GT
2 (2x1) gigs of Patriot DDR-400 (2-3-2-5)
Onboard Sound
I think that's everything relevant; all my Windows Updates and things of that nature are up to date. I'm going to go check out spyware and viruses and things of that nature, but I doubt it's that because I don't use IE, don't surf suspect sites, and don't download suspect files. Yes, that includes pr0n.
Like I said, anything that you can think of would be a great help. I checked Google on this one, but the general consensus seemed to be that it was a result of MSBlaster, which I most certainly don't have because I didn't even build this machine until 2004 and have always had antivirus software.
Thanks!