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Need help diagnosing a system problem
I'm calling on the group mind to see if anyone has any idea what's going on with my home computer. For the last month or two, I've been having a problem with it locking up for 10-30 seconds at a time. The only pattern I see is that it happens when I start a new task that uses a lot of resources. Playing a video file or opening IE are big ones, but other programs do it, too. The whole system freezes for 10-30 seconds and then it comes back and everything is fine. It's more a nuisance than anything, but it's really getting annoying, so I thought I'd ask here.
Nothing changed on my system hardware-wise immediately before this problem started. I did add some new memory, but that was months earlier. I do wonder if it is that, though, and just was a delayed effect? I know PC100 and PC133 is _supposed_ to co-exist peacefully, but...?
Software-wise, I install all sorts of junk all the time, so it's hard to pinpoint if anything there is causing it. I did run a virus scan and came up clean.
I know that's not a lot to go on, but I'm hoping someone will recognize the symptoms and be able to give me a clue. :)
System specs:
P3-600 (not overclocked)
128 PC100
128 PC133
IBM Deskstars 20GB & 75GB
Windows 98SE
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michelle
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