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Specs:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1794MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Memory: 512MB
Free Disk Space: 41.26GB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
I have a problem when ever I run a program that uses anysort of animation. Whenever I run any games(for reference, Civlization 3 and Continuum), play or watch a shockwave file, watch anysort of DVD, Quicktime or Windows media video, The screen is fine for a certain amount of time, ranging between 30 seconds to 30 minutes. But eventually, The screen virtually freezes, or rather moves very slowly to the point of uselessness. This graphics blunder takes over the processor, and the CPU usage maxes out to the point that there is no processor clock available to keep the graph going in the task manager, and for about 2 minutes, the graph shows a sharp incline, a blank area, then a fall back down to normal level. After this two minute frozen period everything returns to normal. Until the next occurance of the problem. The time between "freezings" varies as I said before, but continues as long as any graphics or video are used for an extended period of time.
So far I have used every spyware software on the net (Adaware, Spybot,CWShredder,HijackThis) So I am fairly sure adware cannot be causing this processor/video spike. I have tried using Filemon to find out what files are being used during the spike, but the processor is so bogged down, even filemon cannot function, thus there is a 30 second-2 minute skip in the logging process. I have never seen ANY program use so much processor that another program cannot perform its basic functions. Finally I have no other programs running, as I have tried playing games and shockwave with even my firewall down and virus protection off. All drivers on all hardware have been updated.
I have tried anything in my power to locate this problem, but I have almost decided the problem must be hardware related, most likely graphic card related. if anyone else can offer any advice as to waht this problem can be, please share them before my Nvidia is trashed.
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1794MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Memory: 512MB
Free Disk Space: 41.26GB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
I have a problem when ever I run a program that uses anysort of animation. Whenever I run any games(for reference, Civlization 3 and Continuum), play or watch a shockwave file, watch anysort of DVD, Quicktime or Windows media video, The screen is fine for a certain amount of time, ranging between 30 seconds to 30 minutes. But eventually, The screen virtually freezes, or rather moves very slowly to the point of uselessness. This graphics blunder takes over the processor, and the CPU usage maxes out to the point that there is no processor clock available to keep the graph going in the task manager, and for about 2 minutes, the graph shows a sharp incline, a blank area, then a fall back down to normal level. After this two minute frozen period everything returns to normal. Until the next occurance of the problem. The time between "freezings" varies as I said before, but continues as long as any graphics or video are used for an extended period of time.
So far I have used every spyware software on the net (Adaware, Spybot,CWShredder,HijackThis) So I am fairly sure adware cannot be causing this processor/video spike. I have tried using Filemon to find out what files are being used during the spike, but the processor is so bogged down, even filemon cannot function, thus there is a 30 second-2 minute skip in the logging process. I have never seen ANY program use so much processor that another program cannot perform its basic functions. Finally I have no other programs running, as I have tried playing games and shockwave with even my firewall down and virus protection off. All drivers on all hardware have been updated.
I have tried anything in my power to locate this problem, but I have almost decided the problem must be hardware related, most likely graphic card related. if anyone else can offer any advice as to waht this problem can be, please share them before my Nvidia is trashed.