Advice on Computer Problem
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Right I have a problem with my PC, and looking for advice. My PC seams to have a little freeze every now and again, but I don't notice anything until I play music or video's. When I do, it becames apparent, as the video will at various points make a little jump, or a piece or music will stutter, for a very brief moment. I have monitored the CPU usage, but when this little freeze happens, the CPU is not at 100%, more like 20-30%. I was wondering if i could monitor the pc in more detail, and hopefully find which, program/Driver/hard ware is causing this. I have (almost) identical software setup on my laptop, and it does not suffer from the mentioned problem. Look forward to your suggestions. --- Peter M
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Right I have a problem with my PC, and looking for advice. My PC seams to have a little freeze every now and again, but I don't notice anything until I play music or video's. When I do, it becames apparent, as the video will at various points make a little jump, or a piece or music will stutter, for a very brief moment. I have monitored the CPU usage, but when this little freeze happens, the CPU is not at 100%, more like 20-30%. I was wondering if i could monitor the pc in more detail, and hopefully find which, program/Driver/hard ware is causing this. I have (almost) identical software setup on my laptop, and it does not suffer from the mentioned problem. Look forward to your suggestions. --- Peter M
This is almost always a video or sound driver problem...but I have seen situations where if you have MS Office installed and Findfast is running you can experience periodic slowdowns. First, I'd say upgrade your Video and sound drivers to the latest releases. Also, after doing that re-install or install DirectX 8. You can also increase your swap file size, you didnt mention what OS you are running, but all the windows versions let you manually set a swap file size rather than having windows do it. Just set both the min and max to the same number. A good rule of thumb is 2.5 times the amount of ram that you have installed. So, if you 256 mb of ram, your swap file would be 640 mb. You can try lowering hardware acceleration for your sound and video, although I'm pretty sure thats not the problem. Hope that helps, and good luck. :) Frank
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This is almost always a video or sound driver problem...but I have seen situations where if you have MS Office installed and Findfast is running you can experience periodic slowdowns. First, I'd say upgrade your Video and sound drivers to the latest releases. Also, after doing that re-install or install DirectX 8. You can also increase your swap file size, you didnt mention what OS you are running, but all the windows versions let you manually set a swap file size rather than having windows do it. Just set both the min and max to the same number. A good rule of thumb is 2.5 times the amount of ram that you have installed. So, if you 256 mb of ram, your swap file would be 640 mb. You can try lowering hardware acceleration for your sound and video, although I'm pretty sure thats not the problem. Hope that helps, and good luck. :) Frank
I have Windows XP Pro installed, but do not believe this is the cause, since my mother computer has Windows XP Pro also, and does not suffer with the same problems. I have a Sound Blaster Live Value sound card, and a Hercules £d Prophet 4500. I'm concerned about the sound card, since its a number of years old now, but the drivers I have for it are the latest, and are XP compatible. Is there someway to monitor the Computers activity, so i can see what is causing the momentary slow down. --- Peter M
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I have Windows XP Pro installed, but do not believe this is the cause, since my mother computer has Windows XP Pro also, and does not suffer with the same problems. I have a Sound Blaster Live Value sound card, and a Hercules £d Prophet 4500. I'm concerned about the sound card, since its a number of years old now, but the drivers I have for it are the latest, and are XP compatible. Is there someway to monitor the Computers activity, so i can see what is causing the momentary slow down. --- Peter M
I found a CPU hog program once by opening the Task Manager (Right click on the taskbar and click "Task Manager"). Click processes tab, and sort by CPU. Set the TM to be always on top. Any app that sucks up CPU will show up at the top of the list. Other than that, I'm not sure of any programs that will monitor the way you ask. I have a SB Live card, and experienced choppy audio until I upped the swap file. Try that too. Cheers, Frank
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I have Windows XP Pro installed, but do not believe this is the cause, since my mother computer has Windows XP Pro also, and does not suffer with the same problems. I have a Sound Blaster Live Value sound card, and a Hercules £d Prophet 4500. I'm concerned about the sound card, since its a number of years old now, but the drivers I have for it are the latest, and are XP compatible. Is there someway to monitor the Computers activity, so i can see what is causing the momentary slow down. --- Peter M
Control Panel- Advanced and Performancec - Admin- Event Log That will tell you what is causing the problem. -Steven
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