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Presario SR1030NX hangs/lock up.
SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when
or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. |
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Russell wrote:
SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. Check that the Indexing Service is not running. Control Panel, Administrative tools, Services, navigate to Indexing Service, right-click Properties, in Startup Type select Disabled, in Service Status click Stop. Close out. Reboot. See if this helps. Check all startup applications to verify if they are needed or you want them to run: Start, Run Command, type: msconfig[enter key], select Startup Tab. Review each startup application; use this site to help decifer what they are and what they do: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php ; uncheck the box to disable. It is best to note the application that is invoking the startup and permanently disable the startup in the application preferences. Q |
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Indexing IS turned off...and all the services listed under MSCONFIG are MS
services except for a few that have to do with apps installed on my PC....i.e. Norton Antivirus. Not sure what services need NEED to be on and which ones that don't so have no clue if ANY of these could be the cause of my problem. Any other suggestions. Thanx in advance. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... Russell wrote: SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. Check that the Indexing Service is not running. Control Panel, Administrative tools, Services, navigate to Indexing Service, right-click Properties, in Startup Type select Disabled, in Service Status click Stop. Close out. Reboot. See if this helps. Check all startup applications to verify if they are needed or you want them to run: Start, Run Command, type: msconfig[enter key], select Startup Tab. Review each startup application; use this site to help decifer what they are and what they do: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php ; uncheck the box to disable. It is best to note the application that is invoking the startup and permanently disable the startup in the application preferences. Q |
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Is the computer connected to the internet when this happens? What happens if
the computer is not connected to the net? Could be some spyware "calling home" after stealing some info from your computer. Could be other forms of spyware, trojans, malware... Ben Myers On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:51:08 -0700, "Russell" wrote: Indexing IS turned off...and all the services listed under MSCONFIG are MS services except for a few that have to do with apps installed on my PC....i.e. Norton Antivirus. Not sure what services need NEED to be on and which ones that don't so have no clue if ANY of these could be the cause of my problem. Any other suggestions. Thanx in advance. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... Russell wrote: SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. Check that the Indexing Service is not running. Control Panel, Administrative tools, Services, navigate to Indexing Service, right-click Properties, in Startup Type select Disabled, in Service Status click Stop. Close out. Reboot. See if this helps. Check all startup applications to verify if they are needed or you want them to run: Start, Run Command, type: msconfig[enter key], select Startup Tab. Review each startup application; use this site to help decifer what they are and what they do: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php ; uncheck the box to disable. It is best to note the application that is invoking the startup and permanently disable the startup in the application preferences. Q |
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Thats what I have thought the problem is all along. Recentlly installed a
new spyware program....no changes even after it cleared a few programs. Virus program is updated and finds nothing. I on the verge of doing a restore and hopefully that would cure the problem but want to try everything before I do that. ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... Is the computer connected to the internet when this happens? What happens if the computer is not connected to the net? Could be some spyware "calling home" after stealing some info from your computer. Could be other forms of spyware, trojans, malware... Ben Myers On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:51:08 -0700, "Russell" wrote: Indexing IS turned off...and all the services listed under MSCONFIG are MS services except for a few that have to do with apps installed on my PC....i.e. Norton Antivirus. Not sure what services need NEED to be on and which ones that don't so have no clue if ANY of these could be the cause of my problem. Any other suggestions. Thanx in advance. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... Russell wrote: SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. Check that the Indexing Service is not running. Control Panel, Administrative tools, Services, navigate to Indexing Service, right-click Properties, in Startup Type select Disabled, in Service Status click Stop. Close out. Reboot. See if this helps. Check all startup applications to verify if they are needed or you want them to run: Start, Run Command, type: msconfig[enter key], select Startup Tab. Review each startup application; use this site to help decifer what they are and what they do: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php ; uncheck the box to disable. It is best to note the application that is invoking the startup and permanently disable the startup in the application preferences. Q |
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Before worring about saving any valuable data BEFORE doing a restore, and then
having to do the restore, download and run Spybot 1.3 and Ad-Aware SE. Make sure you update them with the latest defintions used to track down and eliminate spyware, malware, and other crud. Together, they do a reasonable job of eliminating the varmints. It does not matter which one you run first. What one fails to find, the other often does. Just make sure you use their latest most up-to-date definitions... Ben Myers On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:53:39 -0700, "Russell" wrote: Thats what I have thought the problem is all along. Recentlly installed a new spyware program....no changes even after it cleared a few programs. Virus program is updated and finds nothing. I on the verge of doing a restore and hopefully that would cure the problem but want to try everything before I do that. ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... Is the computer connected to the internet when this happens? What happens if the computer is not connected to the net? Could be some spyware "calling home" after stealing some info from your computer. Could be other forms of spyware, trojans, malware... Ben Myers On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:51:08 -0700, "Russell" wrote: Indexing IS turned off...and all the services listed under MSCONFIG are MS services except for a few that have to do with apps installed on my PC....i.e. Norton Antivirus. Not sure what services need NEED to be on and which ones that don't so have no clue if ANY of these could be the cause of my problem. Any other suggestions. Thanx in advance. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... Russell wrote: SR1030nx....randomly hangs up for 5-15 seconds. No ryhme or reason to when or why this happens. Doesn't matter what apps are running or no apps running at all. pc will hang as if something is consuming the processor completely and every app currently running will slow way down or lock up till this passes. I usually have media player running...and can ALWAYS tell when this hang up/lock up occurs as the "visuals" in windows media will freeze. No new software or hardware has been installed since this started. Have run a virus check and ad ware checks over and over and come up with nothing. Any suggestions at all. Thanx in advance for any help. Russ p.s. I remember having almost this exact problem with my "new" compaq presario 400mhz. Back then it had something to do with the DMA setting on the hard drive. was set wrong from the factory. Hoping it's something simple like this again. Check that the Indexing Service is not running. Control Panel, Administrative tools, Services, navigate to Indexing Service, right-click Properties, in Startup Type select Disabled, in Service Status click Stop. Close out. Reboot. See if this helps. Check all startup applications to verify if they are needed or you want them to run: Start, Run Command, type: msconfig[enter key], select Startup Tab. Review each startup application; use this site to help decifer what they are and what they do: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php ; uncheck the box to disable. It is best to note the application that is invoking the startup and permanently disable the startup in the application preferences. Q |
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