OK, I just bought a new Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H motherboard, AMD X4 620 quad core CPU , and 2 gigs of G. Skill 1066mhz memory 1 gig per DIMM stick.. Running Windows XP professional, using the onboard video for now (ATI HD 4200)...I've left everthing stock in the BIOS with the exception of setting the memory manually to 2 volts and lowering it to 800mhz as Gigabytes website has some cryptic message on their memory compatibility page about memory not running in dual channel mode at 1066 and above, that may just be my misunderstanding, but the issues I'm having are also when I had the memory at 1066 too......
So, at random times, for no apparent reason with a fresh install of Windows XP , from day one , the mouse will 'struggle' to move and clicking anything will just stall...then , after some random amount of time, generally 5 to 10 second,s things will run smooth until the next occurance , usually within 20-30 minutes. It occurs whether I'm doing anything at the moment or not, and windows Task Manager/Processes doesn't appear to show anything unusal taxing the CPU....there is absolutely no indication in windows of what might be causing this brief freeze up like behavior....memtest says the memory is good, windows xp's Event Viewer logs show no apparent messages to explain to me what is causing this. The stunner about this for me, has been that in spite of all this massive computing power, when something like this goes on, your literally reduced to experimentation and removing/swapping/replacing parts as part of the process to diagnose the problem. Aren't these systems smart enough now to tell me what the issue is? lol ....anyhow, if anyone has any similar experience or ideas what might be causing this, I'd be very happy to listen...I'm about a day or so away from RMA'ing the entire thing and starting over with maybe an Intel i7 system....
So, at random times, for no apparent reason with a fresh install of Windows XP , from day one , the mouse will 'struggle' to move and clicking anything will just stall...then , after some random amount of time, generally 5 to 10 second,s things will run smooth until the next occurance , usually within 20-30 minutes. It occurs whether I'm doing anything at the moment or not, and windows Task Manager/Processes doesn't appear to show anything unusal taxing the CPU....there is absolutely no indication in windows of what might be causing this brief freeze up like behavior....memtest says the memory is good, windows xp's Event Viewer logs show no apparent messages to explain to me what is causing this. The stunner about this for me, has been that in spite of all this massive computing power, when something like this goes on, your literally reduced to experimentation and removing/swapping/replacing parts as part of the process to diagnose the problem. Aren't these systems smart enough now to tell me what the issue is? lol ....anyhow, if anyone has any similar experience or ideas what might be causing this, I'd be very happy to listen...I'm about a day or so away from RMA'ing the entire thing and starting over with maybe an Intel i7 system....
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