System Pauses...
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MKSheppard
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System Pauses...
Every once in a while, my system will behave like it's "hung", but after a few seconds, it goes back to normal. Does anyone have any idea what would be causing this problem?
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Use Process Explorer from Sysinternals. It has a history graph, where you can find out which process was the biggest user of CPU cycles at a given point in time.
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MKSheppard
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Yep, Soemthing went to 100% when my system paused.
It says that DPCs used up 98.5% of my CPU.
It says that DPCs used up 98.5% of my CPU.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
I had the same thing when my power supply was starting to die, so it might be worth looking into that as well.
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MKSheppard, ever have the culprit be a program's process (most frustratingly for me, at times Firefox), in particular when it's a lot of windows or tabs open?
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MKSheppard
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How can you tell if it is starting to die? Look at the voltage input to the mobo?loomer wrote:I had the same thing when my power supply was starting to die, so it might be worth looking into that as well.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Actually, I have no idea how to tell. Checking the input would work, I suspect, so go with that. Or wait until it craps out, either one.
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Heavy disk activity on the OS drive will cause these problems too.
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"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.