Really annoying problem with new computer.

[Syribo]

I am so tired of this happening... It happens 50-100 times a day I bet. It happens randomly, out of nowhere, and it doesn't matter if I'm doing nothing or 5 things at once.. it just happens.

For about 10-20 seconds, every program running that I am trying to use will just 'fade' and stop responding for a bit, and then just starts working again. When this happens, it happens with EVERY program. If it happens while I'm using FireFox, I can't use AIM or Winamp or anything else, every program will look like this:

All I was doing was typing a response in a thread, as you can see, and this is what happens for no reason.

Every program will look like that, and will say "Not responding" at the top. If it happened once or twice a day, I wouldn't care.. but over and over and over all day is really frustrating. My CPU usage or RAM usage and things like that don't change when this happens.. Think it may just be a failed Vista install? It's been about two months since I built this computer, and this problem hasn't occurred the entire time.. I actually can't remember when it started, but definitely more than two weeks ago...

I really.. really.. really don't want to reformat and reinstall Vista... But I can't think of anything that could be causing this to happen so frequently.

 

[Syribo]

Since my post before, this problem has happened about 15 more times.. My father sent me about 5 IMs in a row on AIM, and it took more than a minute to unfreeze before I could see any of them..

You know what, though.. It doesn't affect gaming whatsoever. I can play any game for hours without a problem. Anyone ever heard of this kind of problem??

 

[Predator6sic6]

I have the same problem too but not as frequently.

 

[vsboxerboy]

hey, so does this happen only when firefox is open? I used to have this really annoying problem of firefox using up ALL of my memory bringing my system to its knees for 10-20 seconds at a time

 

[Syribo]

hey, so does this happen only when firefox is open? I used to have this really annoying problem of firefox using up ALL of my memory bringing my system to its knees for 10-20 seconds at a time

That's a good point.. I always have FireFox open, so maybe that is the problem. But I'll open up the Task Manager and FF usually isn't taking up more memory than other programs.

Right now I'm using IE for a bit to see if it still freezes.. I'll report back with my results soon.

 

[silent-circuit]

Try getting the Firefox v3 RC1 and trying that. Firefox 2 acts strange for me sometimes since ~6-8 months ago, sometimes screwing up so badly that only a restart will make it work again. Hopefully the fix whatever it is they've broken, because it's not my system, it happens to others too, and happens with new installs, so it's really the more recent versions doing it and not some malware or something.

 

[Syribo]

Try getting the Firefox v3 RC1 and trying that. Firefox 2 acts strange for me sometimes since ~6-8 months ago, sometimes screwing up so badly that only a restart will make it work again. Hopefully the fix whatever it is they've broken, because it's not my system, it happens to others too, and happens with new installs, so it's really the more recent versions doing it and not some malware or something.

I'll try that So far it hasn't frozen once since I've had IE open.. It might only be a few minutes.. but considering the freezing was happening about every 5 minutes...