Computer freezes for 10 sec, every minute? Need help!

[Yann Lequin]

Hi all,

I got a friend of mine that his computer keeps freezing for like 10
seconds every minute.Everything freezes even winamp music skips when frozen.
He's done a virus/Trojan scan but found nothing. There's nothing running in
the processes. Nothing was recently installed. He can still type when frozen
but shows up after it's unfrozen ( if that helps anyone). If anyone has any
serious solutions other than pitching the computer out the windows, please
let us know. Thanks!

PS: my buddy just MSGed me and he think it could be a CPU failure.....I
figured I'd add this in.

 

[Gaz]

Hi all,

I got a friend of mine that his computer keeps freezing for like 10
seconds every minute.Everything freezes even winamp music skips when frozen.
He's done a virus/Trojan scan but found nothing. There's nothing running in
the processes. Nothing was recently installed. He can still type when frozen
but shows up after it's unfrozen ( if that helps anyone). If anyone has any
serious solutions other than pitching the computer out the windows, please
let us know. Thanks!

PS: my buddy just MSGed me and he think it could be a CPU failure.....I
figured I'd add this in.

Is it a Packard Bell?

Gaz

 

[Guest]

i had the same prob tell hin to go to task manager and see what all the progarms are doing in idle mode i found two which were taking all my computers resouces

 

[*Vanguard*]

"theman" said in

i had the same prob tell hin to go to task manager and see what all
the progarms are doing in idle mode i found two which were taking all
my computers resouces

Note that a process need not usurp a huge amount of CPU usage to cause
the hiccups mentioned. Flooding the PCI bus with drive traffic can do
the same. In Task Manager's Process panel, you typically only see the
CPU usage of each process. In the Views -> Select Columns menu, add
more columns, like:

I/O Read Bytes
I/O Write Bytes

These won't show the instantaneous transfer rates for each process.
They show the cumulative bytes transferred but are a good indicator of
which process is keeping the drives the most busy.