Hi all, First of all I REALLY appreciate any advice you guys and gals could give, this is ruining my life and my wallet. My first question - what's the difference between how your PC processes DivX/XVid files in a media player, and playing it in VirtualDub? I assume VirtualDub previewing is raw? The reason I ask, around 7 months ago while I was playing Star Wars KoTOR (with the case cover off, tut tut I know) suddenly my PC started freezing up big time, for about 5 sec long intervals. From then on, every time I watch a movie, play a game, listen to music with WM visualisations, or even scroll through long web pages, my PC display and hard drive intermittently freeze, CPU usage jams at 100% and the sound starts skipping - after a couple of secs it unfreezes, but the video and sounds speed up dramatically for a second to get to the movie/music position it would have been at if it hadn't frozen. And as soon as I stop using graphics intensive applications, it's fine. *This only starts to happen once the PC has warmed up.* Since it started I've reinstalled WinXP (+SP2) twice and replaced basically every component in the system one by one, but it still happens. Yesterday I noticed while playing DiVX etc. in Windows Media / BSPlayer it freezes every minute or so, but in VirtualDub I can play them for as long as I want and the system *never* locks up! Is this a clue as to what's wrong? _________________________ SYSTEM: The brand new components I've fitted since the problem started are: Athlon XP3200+ CPU Asus A7N8X-X Motherboard ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 512mb DDR400 Kingston ram Maxtor 200gb HD Seasonic Super Tornado 350W PSU Zalman 7000B Flower CPU Cooler Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case, 2x 120mm fans Everything! All other components (cards, CD drives, data cables) I've tried temporarily removing or swapping but it makes no difference. And yes I took every electrostatic precaution when changing components. My loaded system temps are: Case (23), CPU (38), G/FX (42), H/D (29) _________________________ I'm totally stuck, please please help!! Thanks, James
Ummm... CD/DVD drives, floppy, IDE ribbons, and a 4.1 PCI sound card. And mouse and keyboard! As far as I remember I've tried removing or replacing all of them and it doesn't make any difference.
I think so, maybe just power though thinking about it. I'll try disconnecting them all tomorrow. Does it sound like a data transfer problem then?
