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Wife's computer keeps randomly pausing for 1 or 4 seconds. PROBLEM FIXED!!!

Freejack2

Freejack2

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This is a wierd problem that I can't seem to solve.

System specs: Asus P4B533 I845e board with latest 1013 bios, p4 1.6a, 2 - 256mb sticks of Kingston PC2100, 13gb 7200 rpm wd boot drive, 27gb maxtor 5400rpm drive, 16x Toshiba dvd drive, yamaha 6x scsi cdrw on Tekram scsi controller, SB Live with digital out, floppy drive, internal 100mb zip drive, Leadtek geforce 3 ti200, logitech itouch keyboard, and intellimouse explorer optical usb(not 3.0, older).

She can be doing anything, playing a game, browsing the web, and it'll do this. During the pause any sound playing will continue playing that fraction of a second of sound and it sounds like a buzz.

The only hardware change has been the motherboard. The board was tested before installing it in her system and didn't do this.
Nothing seems to fix it. Anyone have any experience with this happenening? What did you do to fix it? Please help if at all possible!

Edit: Fixed! See below!
 
What about moving the PCI cards to other slots, have you experimented with that at all? Grrr, I can't get through to Asus to download a manual... but they include a chart showing the slots that share interrupts.

Also, I assume you disabled the onboard sound, the onboard MIDI port and the onboard gameport, but if not, that might be worth a try.
 
The onboard sound is disabled. If it helps any here is an irq listing.

Interrupt Request (IRQ)
(ISA) 0 System Timer
(ISA) 1 Easy Internet Keyboard (<Logitech Itouch> )
(ISA) 4 Communications Port 1
(ISA) 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
(ISA) 8 System CMOS/real time clock
(ISA) 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
(ISA) 13 Numeric Data Processor
(ISA) 14 Primary IDE Channel
(ISA) 15 Secondary IDE Channel
(PCI) 16 Nvidia Geforce3 Ti 200 (<Latest Nvidia driver> )
(PCI) 16 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
(PCI) 18 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI TX NIX (3C905B-TX)
(PCI) 18 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
(PCI) 19 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
(PCI) 21 Tekram DC-395U/UW/F, DC-315/U or DC-3051/E PCI Ultra SCSI Host Adapter V3.0.3
(PCI) 23 Creative SB Live! Value (<Not 5.1 I think, but has digital out> )
(PCI) 23 Intel(r) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller -24CD

Edit: The cards are installed as follows
AGP : GF3 Ti200
PCI1: Empty
PCI2: Empty
PCI3: SB Live Value
PCI4: Empty
PCI5: Tekram 395 Scsi Card
PCI6: 3Com 905B Ethernet
 
How about taking the SB Live out and trying the onboard sound, or do you need the SB Live's features? If the problem goes away with the Live out, that tells you something.

Alternately, maybe try the Live in PCI slot 4.
 
Well I tried a variation of your suggestion. I moved the ethernet card to slot 2, the scsi card to slot 4, and the SB Live to slot 5. None of these cards are sharing IRQ's now.
*fingers crossed*

Edit: About 50 minutes now, no freezes. I'll be very very happy if this fixes it! 🙂
Edit2: Over 2 hours now, looks very very promising! 🙂 🙂
 
Thanks for your help and input mechBgon.
Looks like an irq conflict was the problem. 3 hours now, gaming and whatnot without any pauses or stuttering!
 
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