Weird delay problem

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El Alamo

Hi People,

I have a problem that is really stumping me, hope you can help me out

I have a Windows XP Home system, 1.7 Ghz Intel P4 Processor with 768
MB of RAM.

Whenever I start up my system, it runs fine for a while. Then, out of
nowhere, I get like a 10 second delay-period every 3-4 minutes more or
less.

This is best noticeable whenever I play first person shooters on the
internet, my ping goes up to 999 (I have an ADSL-connection, so ping
normally around 50), computer seems to lock up for the above-mentioned
10 seconds, and then everything returns back to normal.

Since I cannot switch to the task manager, I also cannot determine
what process hogs up every system resource that I have.

Until now, I have tried the following, all to no avail:

1. Setting my network card from auto-detect to 10Mbs full duplex
2. Updating my system with http://windowsupdate.Microsoft.com
(yes, including SP1)
3. Updated all my drivers
4. Running Ad-aware, and removing all suspicious stuff
5. Disabling all the extra services that I have no need for, with
the help of this page: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm
6. Removing all the unwanted start-up items with the help of
MSCONFIG
7. Set up a new swap file on a separate drive, 3 times as big as
my physical memory

I also of course checked my Anti-virus settings, and there is no
background scan active.

Now, this really has been driving me nuts over the last few days. The
computer itself works like a charm, really fast, no probs whatsoever,
if only I could get determine what causes this weird problem…..

Any ideas???

Thanks in advance.
 
For what it's worth, try also running SpyBot Search & Destroy. It seems to
catch anything that Ad-aware misses. Are you running any auto/scheduled
updates to your AV sorftware or Windows Update, etc?

Good Luck!
Rob
 
Yup, did that. Even installed Intel's latest driverset for my chipset
(845). Still the problem persists....

I have read various descriptions of the same problem, the solutions
all seem to lead to either sound-card, network-card or intel
chipset-drivers, so I guess I am all out of options now....
 
Hi,

I built my computer in 2/03 with a boxed Intel board and
CPU from the ground up, so to speak. The board usees the
845 chipset and the drivers for board have not changed
since I completed the build in 2/03.

I am wondering if your problem might be that update? If
your computer is an OEM computer, like HP or DELL etc.
Then you would be limited to updates from that OEM's web
site. If you just updated the chipset drivers without
knowing the motherboard's actual make and model, because
the OEM's web site had little or no current updates and
you went directly to the Intel web site just because you
knew your chipset was an 845 chipset, you may need to
update the bios on your motherboard. If there are no
further bios updates for your computer, if it is indeed
an OEM system (on their site) you may need to go back to
your original chipset drivers, if you can validate that
the problem started after loading the new drivers.

This is my shot in the dark, without knowing really
anything more about your system board, other than you
saying it has an 845 chipset.

-David
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Yup, did that. Even installed Intel's latest driverset for my chipset
(845). Still the problem persists....

I have read various descriptions of the same problem, the solutions
all seem to lead to either sound-card, network-card or intel
chipset-drivers, so I guess I am all out of options now....
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