I doubt seriously that your problem is a hardware problem.  Most likely some
program is running in the background.  Occassionally it grabs the cpu for a
few seconds and your program has to sit and wait.  I suspect a backup
program or similar type program is causing this.  Do a single ctrl-alt-del
and
you may be able to find the culprit.

Dean   [log in to unmask]


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] computer 'stutters'


I have a brookings mother board with a 950 celeron chip.  I have 2 256Mb
PC100 ram chips.  In the past week my programs have developed a 'stutter'.
Best description is if I play solitaire it deals 5 cards, pauses, and then
continues the same way.  All the programs seem to do that.  I put in a new
hard drive yesterday and reloaded everything and still it continues.  I run
win98 and win98se on an upgrade disk.  Any ideas how to trace this.  I was
thinking bad ram or the cpu's getting ready to quit.

John

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