Computer starts to "hiccup"

Joe Zeff wrote:
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:20:42 -0800, relic wrote:

If it nags because you don't use Followups, and you can't disable
that, I vote that it's worse than OE.

It doesn't prevent them, as you'll see, but it does object to such
offenses against good netiquette.


Where do you find a violation of good netiquette in this thread?

"Netiquette for Discussion Groups "
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/boo...702513p65.html

OK


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I've begun noticing a glitch where the computer starts to hesitate -
for example you'll be playing an audio or video file and it pauses
intermittently and it's reflected in the audio with an obnoxious
intermittent buzzing. When you run the mouse across the screen it also
intermittently hangs.

Don't know if it's at all related but I first started noticing this a
little while ago some time after doing an OS reinstall - XP MCE and
doing long video editing/rendering projects, but now I find it doesn't
seem to have to be anything that intensive. It will also sometimes do
it just letting the computer sit for a period and coming back to it.
Other observations are that "Restart" doesn't seem to be as likely to
clear it as a complete shut down and reboot. I had run this machine
for several years before this with no such problem.

It doesn't seem to be related to any particular app, at least that I
can tell so far. I've run the updated Bitdefender A/V and it finds
nothing, have the latest security updates.

I do have 4 h/d's but there's a fair amount of cooling. Tower case and
besides the power supply fan there's a big puller fan in back, pusher
in front, and a side case fan. I can run my audio recording app for
hours and have no problem. Other times it suddenly appears with doing
not much of anything.

Soyo Dragon Mobo, P4 2.4 gig, 3 gigs ram, XP MCE, browser I use almost
exclusively is FF 3.5.3 except for Windows Updates.

About the only other change I can think of was I pulled the CPU heat
sink to give it and the fan a good cleaning, cleaned the contact
surfaces and applied some Radio Shack heat sink compound PN 276-1372
A. I've used it on other machines with no issue. Don't really recall
what the timing is of the symptoms relative to the CPU removal/
reinstall.

Thanks for all input!