Weird slowdowns - nVidia bug?

[bluemax]

I made two changes at the same time:
A very nice Geforce2 TI
ADSL internet connection.

I've noticed that when running my system for a while, the system begins to drag more and more... Eventually it'll just about freeze solid.
It seems to happen most when running Kazaa and downloading. Even after closing the program and 'net connection it still slows.

Could this be a bug regarding Kazaa? (Doubtful - worked fine on cable modem) the ADSL connection, or this mysterious nVidia "loop to infinity" bug I've heard about?

 

[BFG10K]

Which drivers are you using? I really doubt that nVidia's drivers have anything to do with your problem.

Try bringing up the task manager and see what is eating your CPU cycles.

 

[Skot]

What type of CD-ROM / CD-RW do you have?

If it's an NEC, updated the firmware. That's a known issue with XP and those drives. Just a thought, but considering it didn't start happening until those two additions, it might not be a very good one...but still.

 

[Dreadogg]

<< It seems to happen most when running Kazaa and downloading. Even after closing the program and 'net connection it still slows >>

Have you tried running adaware with the newest ref file update? Im sure you know this already, but that spyware will make your pc slowdown to a crawl, just yesterday I was at my fathers and he had some program running in the background from the task bar I sat there and watched this thing just chew through memory it had ate up 60 MB in about 10 min's of doing nothing just everytime he opened internet explorer it started working! Adaware did not even catch this one I had to manually remove it from the control panel also after I updated the reference file it found 244 new spyware things on his pc! just check the taskbar if your using XP and see what is using all the mem or cpu!

EDIT: by the way what os are you using?

 

[bluemax]

Currently using Win98ME. It sucks and I hate it. :|
Win2000 is on the way - I hope!

Yes, I think you may have hit the nail on the head... spyware! Grr... I think that's it. The problem always seems to be during/after running Kazaa!
I have that download from Hot Deals... some sort of AD-less-Kazaa... I should check that out.
That and Adaware.... Time to DL that again.

Any other suggestions?