HP Laptop and random pauses

[nocilah]

Guess what? I recently downgraded Vista to XP on my HP laptop due to the fact that I am not forking out cash for extra RAM and Vista is screaming for that when I run RAM intensive applications like photoshop, dreamweaver ect.

Anyway long story short i now i have XP running fine on the laptop however I have this weird problem. There are these very random pauses. Difficult to explain. I will be moving the mouse cursor and the machine will pause, mouse will not work, then everything is fine.

It is a core duo 1.3Ghz Intel p4 with 1Gb Ram. Just curious if anyone has experienced this and has a resolution for it. It never used to do this when Vista was on.

just became very slow when using memory intensive apps.

thanks in advance

 

[feo]

Have exactly the same problem on my current PC. I'm also looking for an answer to it.

My guess would probably be RAM that's on it's way out. I still gotta run memtest on my RAM to see if there's any errors.

 

[antowan]

my hp is also a little cranky atm.

Don't wanna diss HP without cause, so I am looking for the source. Maybe it is virus based?

 

[nocilah]

i dont think it can be a virus as it was installed today at work by the admin dude and we have a corporate virus scanner installed by default and also i network is free of viruses. it is literally a fresh install of windows xp. i am using internet explorer its that new of an install.

could it be a core duo CPU prob on windows xp?

could it be disk indexing?

it is just so damn frustrating. even when typing it will pause for about 1 sec - 2 sec then carry on. fooking annoying.

 

[antowan]

could it be a core duo CPU prob on windows xp?

could it be disk indexing?

it is just so damn frustrating. even when typing it will pause for about 1 sec - 2 sec then carry on. fooking annoying.

Well if it isn't virus then it must be driver related IMO. Or hardware issue. Would be odd if it was a widely distributed problem though.

 

[nocilah]

Well if it isn't virus then it must be driver related IMO. Or hardware issue. Would be odd if it was a widely distributed problem though.

hard to say at this point. I think you spot on in driver issue. if this persists i am going to steal RAM from someone elses laptop and upgrade to Vista again.

It is one of those laptops that came with Vista preinstalled.

Thanks for the help.

 

[sn3rd]

halicon: Core duo P4 ?? AFAIK those are differentthings completely?

Bring up task manager and watch to see what is causing the pause. During these pauses, does the mouse lose responsiveness? I've had a problem like this before, and I was able to identify the offending process and nuke it / figure out why it's taking up resources so greedily and sporadically

 

[nocilah]

halicon: Core duo P4 ?? AFAIK those are differentthings completely?

Bring up task manager and watch to see what is causing the pause. During these pauses, does the mouse lose responsiveness? I've had a problem like this before, and I was able to identify the offending process and nuke it / figure out why it's taking up resources so greedily and sporadically

sorry not very farmiliar with intel as i am an AMD fan.

Its a coreduo. the laptop is very new (3-4 months old). I assumed these were P4's but realised it cant be cuz it is the latest one...er... once you pointed it out

cool i am close to sleep... so will investigate tomoro and report back if i find the offending gremlin

 

[sn3rd]

lol... sorry, I can be a bit anal about semantics

 

[HavocXphere]

Sounds like either you have dodgy drivers, or the PnP setting in the BIOS was set to BIOS instead of OS. If the BIOS setting is the problem then you will have to change the setting and reinstall. Just changing the setting now won't help since IRQ & resources are only re-allocated @ install.

 

[nocilah]

Sounds like either you have dodgy drivers, or the PnP setting in the BIOS was set to BIOS instead of OS. If the BIOS setting is the problem then you will have to change the setting and reinstall. Just changing the setting now won't help since IRQ & resources are only re-allocated @ install.

*groans* no offense but i hope you are wrong :/

 

[Nerfherder]

Check your mouse first....

 

[HavocXphere]

*groans* no offense but i hope you are wrong :/

Most modern BIOSs should be preset to the correct setting for XP/Vista, so odds are in your favour. The described symptoms just sound awfully samiliar to when the IRQs were screwed on my PC.

Check the temps with speedfan too.

Another thing, if you are using an external mouse, try plugging it into a different USB slot. Usually its 2 USBs per IRQ, so maybe it'll go away if you hit a different IRQ.

 

[.Froot.]

sorry not very farmiliar with intel as i am an AMD fan.

Its a coreduo. the laptop is very new (3-4 months old). I assumed these were P4's but realised it cant be cuz it is the latest one...er... once you pointed it out

cool i am close to sleep... so will investigate tomoro and report back if i find the offending gremlin

The new As from Core 2 Duo, these processors are not Pentiums any more. The last Pentium was the Pentium Dual Core. I still remember at school a friend told me he saw plans for the "Pentium 5". What a laugh.

 

[.Froot.]

I've also had some random issues with my HP laptop. Got a new laptop too, about a year old. It randomly freezes. Has happened on XP when I still ran it. Happens in Linux too. No specific conditions under which it happens really, but it seems to favour multimedia clips. I have to do a hard reboot to fix the problem each time. System stays non responsive otherwise.

 

[nocilah]

network card drivers !

i usually use wi-fi but obviously when copying huge amounts of data i will prefer to use a network cable (1gb) and the HP network card drivers are dodge.

So yeah, that is what was causing the random pauses. And I was wrong about the processor - its an intel centrino duo

 

[sn3rd]

network card drivers !

i usually use wi-fi but obviously when copying huge amounts of data i will prefer to use a network cable (1gb) and the HP network card drivers are dodge.

So yeah, that is what was causing the random pauses. And I was wrong about the processor - its an intel centrino duo

Centrino Duo could still be a Core Duo (as opposed to a Core 2 Duo). Processor models T2xxx are Core Duos (Yonah) while T5xxx and T7xxx are Core 2 Duos (Merom or Penryn). Centrino Duo could refer to either Yonah or Merom processors on the Napa platform, while Centrino Pro generally refers to Merom Merom or Penryn processors on the Santa Rosa platform

Glad it's sorted out, btw

 

[nocilah]

Centrino Duo could still be a Core Duo (as opposed to a Core 2 Duo). Processor models T2xxx are Core Duos (Yonah) while T5xxx and T7xxx are Core 2 Duos (Merom or Penryn). Centrino Duo could refer to either Yonah or Merom processors on the Napa platform, while Centrino Pro generally refers to Merom Merom or Penryn processors on the Santa Rosa platform

Glad it's sorted out, btw

im an AMD fan... Intel is just too complicated for my little brain.

 

[milomak]

network card drivers !

i usually use wi-fi but obviously when copying huge amounts of data i will prefer to use a network cable (1gb) and the HP network card drivers are dodge.

So yeah, that is what was causing the random pauses. And I was wrong about the processor - its an intel centrino duo

damn you for stealing my thunder by solving your own problem

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

yip...its always drivers with that problem

either a network driver or the IDE/SATA changing from udma mode to pio transfer mode.