Vista Ultimate hangs for 30 secs

[whiffich]

I have been running Vista Ultimate on my home PC for a year. It is fine but
has an annoying habit of the screen freezing for EXACTLY 30 seconds (I have
the analogue clock with a second hand that also freezes and starts again 30
seconds later!). It tends to do this about 3 or 4 times after I first boot up
and then everything is fine. I have not installed SP1. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[John Barnes]

Since it happens several times, why don't you launch Task Manager Processes
and see if you can spot one that is using your CPU cycles. If you have a
multi-core processor, you should set it to view multiple cores and see if
one is spiking to 100% during this process (performance). If, as happened
to me you end up with one core handling too much, you can set affinity as I
occasionally have to do.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Since it happens several times, why don't you launch Task Manager
Processes and see if you can spot one that is using your CPU cycles. If
you have a multi-core processor, you should set it to view multiple cores
and see if one is spiking to 100% during this process (performance). If,
as happened to me you end up with one core handling too much, you can set
affinity as I occasionally have to do.

And how, exactly, does one "set affinity?" (Not being intimately familiar
with that function... and thought others might like to know too...)

Lang