System slows down every few minutes

[Ranbir]

Shawn,

I am experiencing almost the same problem that you
describe here and would like to know if you were able to
find a solution. In my case, the processor
gets 'arrested' every few seconds. The processor
utilization keeps going up and down every few seconds
from 0-6% to 80-100%. Every time the processor
utilization goes up, my systems temporarily freezes and
even the mouse does not move. It will free up for a few
seconds and do the same thing (i.e. freeze up) again?

Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!




>-----Original Message-----
>I've read some similar situations regarding the XP SP1
>and I'm not sure if thats the cause of my problem.
>Basically I'm a gamer, and ever since I installed my SP1
>(I think) my games have been slowing down, lagging and
>hanging for a while, every few minutes. It will just
>hang at a screen. My only solution right now is to
bring
>up the start menu or Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up task
>manager, which shows me using 100% CPU processing.
>
>I never had this problem before with these games, so I
>think it must be some Windows settings or something.
>BTW, I've been using a 1.2 GHZ processor with 640MB DDR
>RAM, and a NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card. No
>change from before, so I don't think it is a hardware
>problem.
>
>Please help if you can. Thanks!!
>.
>