Desperately in need of some help here.....
My main audio rig has started going flakey on me over the last few days, having been rock solid for about 6 months. It's a dual 2.2GHz Xeon (Prestonia) machine on a Supermicro DC6 with 1GB of RD800 RAM, Win2K SP3.
Basically, it started hanging a couple of times a day a week or so ago, then these hangs got more frequent so that I could only work for short periods without a crash. So today, I reverted back to my backup system partition, thinking it had to be OS related or a corrupt driver.....
No joy. Here's the current state of play: straight after bootup, with no applications running, as many background processes disabled as possible, I am getting massive CPU spikes on CPU 1 about every 30 seconds. I can see them in the Task Manager->Performance box, and they're absolutely regular. When they ocurr the system also stops responding for a few seconds.
If this isn't an OS issue (I will reinstall from scratch if poeple are dead sure it's Windows), could it be the beginnings of a dodgy CPU, bad memory or disk, or perhaps a heat problem? I've got another fan running just today in case heat was an issue. I don't think it is - Supero Doctor II shows the CPU's around 35 degrees and the system at 38 degrees - when I take the side off I'd say it's alot cooler than that - practically no heat buildup at all.
If anyone has any ideas - I'd be truly grateful.
Thx in advance
Jules
My main audio rig has started going flakey on me over the last few days, having been rock solid for about 6 months. It's a dual 2.2GHz Xeon (Prestonia) machine on a Supermicro DC6 with 1GB of RD800 RAM, Win2K SP3.
Basically, it started hanging a couple of times a day a week or so ago, then these hangs got more frequent so that I could only work for short periods without a crash. So today, I reverted back to my backup system partition, thinking it had to be OS related or a corrupt driver.....
No joy. Here's the current state of play: straight after bootup, with no applications running, as many background processes disabled as possible, I am getting massive CPU spikes on CPU 1 about every 30 seconds. I can see them in the Task Manager->Performance box, and they're absolutely regular. When they ocurr the system also stops responding for a few seconds.
If this isn't an OS issue (I will reinstall from scratch if poeple are dead sure it's Windows), could it be the beginnings of a dodgy CPU, bad memory or disk, or perhaps a heat problem? I've got another fan running just today in case heat was an issue. I don't think it is - Supero Doctor II shows the CPU's around 35 degrees and the system at 38 degrees - when I take the side off I'd say it's alot cooler than that - practically no heat buildup at all.
If anyone has any ideas - I'd be truly grateful.
Thx in advance
Jules
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