random freezing.....

hey
let me get to right to the point,....well i have had one hdd replaced (((on the rig in my signature)))due to failiure and this one is roughly 3 months old i have run diagnostics but its found nothing wrong with the drive i have checked the ram using memtest86 it says its fine but i gett these random freezing once in a while its quite noticeble when im playing a song on itunes or wmp cuz it causes it to stall
i also have nhc running in the background and shows a dramatic increase in ram usage when it starts stallin though theyre les than a second happen very frequently and are happening as i type this too
then theres the problem of songs skipping well i cant make out if these both are related but ten again wud i would luv to make sense of this problem and would really apreciate any help
cheers
and thanks,

shaheen

 

I had the random freezes on my dv2000t too. Turned out to be an issue with the Outpost firewall.

Check the eventlogs. You might find the cause in there.

 

so how exactly did you rectify it?
cuz if not i was thinkin of doing a recovery from the partition (gotta put it to use lol)

 

any other suggestions?

 

check event viewer and also look at ur task manager when this happens to see what the problem cud be.

do u have the new version of nero installed?

 

acctually i downloaded a verion on nero 6 yesterday but its been happening way before i installed nero
i have been checking task manager but havent seen anything change except the cpu load and the ram taken up by the media player and nhc change thats it

 

well is the ram change happening with both or either of those two programs? if so then try not using that program. so instead of media player use something else like winamp and instead of nhc use another program. also since ur using xp download process explorer, it shows cpu usage of programs task manager doesnt mention

 

oh ok ill try doing that i usually use media player and itunes for media playing ok ill try out what you just told

 

i did a reinstall using the recovery discs but loks like thers no hange but one thing i ahve noticed is while the earphones are plugged into the port there is no freezing the minute i take it out theres is freezing which is quite evident when listening to music may i also say that the hdd skips