Is your CD looking for something?? I had one do the same thing, it just started
for no reason. I disabled AUTO play.
Joe Carchedi

Colin Swabey wrote:

> >I've noticed in the last few days my computer has a multiple
> >freezure attack every 10 minutes or so. It's always the same
> >pattern: freezes up 4 times, each time for a second, with 2
> >seconds normal continuation between each freeze.
>
> I've seen a few very helpful replies to this query over the last few days,
> but I think most are missing the underlaying problem and although they are a
> good place to start, I don't believe power supply or cpu fan problems are
> the cause.
>
> I have had these same symptoms happen to me and have been associated with
> one other instance. In my own case it was caused by a one of the installed
> network protocols not having an available client driver eg: IPX/SPX and no
> Netware driver. This resulted in the protocol spending time looking for a
> host (and not finding one). Go to Control Panel, Networks and check that you
> only have those network components that you actually need and delete all
> others
>
> In the other case it was caused by a remote network printer being out of
> paper (an HP4 laser) and the client using an HPII printer driver, rather
> than the more intelligent HP4 driver. Once the printer was loaded with paper
> and the correct driver was installed everything came right again.