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For those interested in just what is going on with the computer... Posted from my comments in the last post.
So, it started with RAM related blue screens... The first one was shutting down one night and it just hung on shut down. Then lots of irritation with blue screens on boot. (Off the top of my head, I don't have the number but it is a corrupted ntdll.dll... Well, it THINKS it is anyway. It also threw a corrupted Reg. error the other day, and then booted fine.)
So, I've run diagnostics on the RAM and found errors on one of the sticks. I put them in one by one to figure out which one. Then something distracted me away from the computer so I forgot which one. I started the process again, and anytime I put it in the first RAM slot the test just wouldn't start.. So I figured hrrrm.. Maybe it is that slot, and moved the RAM into the other slots. I will be re-running RAM diagnostics later today with the RAM in a different computer to figure out whether it is the RAM or the slot.
So, all along while playing DDO, (and really it's the only game I've been playing lately, so I don't know how it is doing in others, not that that matters SO much) I have been getting slowdowns like CRAZY. Until last night though, it always recovered. I figured it was update 6 because it started JUST after the update. Basically it would feel like it dropped to around 1fps and get jerky, and after a few seconds catch up. This time it did not. It hung about three seconds into one of those slowdowns. (sounds JUST like your problem, eh?) No blue screens though because it was a hang and not a stop.
Now, at first, I thought this was because the other day I had the vid card overheat because of an ID10T error. ;) When futzing around inside I had accidentally unplugged the fan. UGH. But as the night went on, that's when we started considering that it might be the power supply.
*ponders* What else... Oh, yeah, been having issues with the onboard sound, pre-video lockups. Put in an SBlive I had lying around and those seemed to fix.
Actually, update on this... It is, in fact, the first RAM slot that is giving me RAM errors. So, possibly motherboard rather than power supply... Or both. PSU problems causing motherboard problems.
Grrr. I just need a new freaking computer anyway. Maybe sometime in Nov. :/
So, it started with RAM related blue screens... The first one was shutting down one night and it just hung on shut down. Then lots of irritation with blue screens on boot. (Off the top of my head, I don't have the number but it is a corrupted ntdll.dll... Well, it THINKS it is anyway. It also threw a corrupted Reg. error the other day, and then booted fine.)
So, I've run diagnostics on the RAM and found errors on one of the sticks. I put them in one by one to figure out which one. Then something distracted me away from the computer so I forgot which one. I started the process again, and anytime I put it in the first RAM slot the test just wouldn't start.. So I figured hrrrm.. Maybe it is that slot, and moved the RAM into the other slots. I will be re-running RAM diagnostics later today with the RAM in a different computer to figure out whether it is the RAM or the slot.
So, all along while playing DDO, (and really it's the only game I've been playing lately, so I don't know how it is doing in others, not that that matters SO much) I have been getting slowdowns like CRAZY. Until last night though, it always recovered. I figured it was update 6 because it started JUST after the update. Basically it would feel like it dropped to around 1fps and get jerky, and after a few seconds catch up. This time it did not. It hung about three seconds into one of those slowdowns. (sounds JUST like your problem, eh?) No blue screens though because it was a hang and not a stop.
Now, at first, I thought this was because the other day I had the vid card overheat because of an ID10T error. ;) When futzing around inside I had accidentally unplugged the fan. UGH. But as the night went on, that's when we started considering that it might be the power supply.
*ponders* What else... Oh, yeah, been having issues with the onboard sound, pre-video lockups. Put in an SBlive I had lying around and those seemed to fix.
Actually, update on this... It is, in fact, the first RAM slot that is giving me RAM errors. So, possibly motherboard rather than power supply... Or both. PSU problems causing motherboard problems.
Grrr. I just need a new freaking computer anyway. Maybe sometime in Nov. :/