Gateway P-7811FX, Windows pauses sometimes

I just bought a Gateway P-7811FX notebook and for some reason Windows just pauses; mouse doesn't move, graphics freeze, etc. It usually starts to respond again after a second.

I've not been able to narrow down the issue. Any ideas?

 

it's probably windows vista superfetch learning your habits... if it's not something that subsides within a few days of use, then you might have a problem, but for now I would not worry. You can also keep task manager running ... have it sort by cpu usage, and then try to get one of the freezes. if you get a freeze, try to catch the process that flies to the top of the list

p.s. - superfetch is basically a vista monitor program that learns what programs you use the most and stores that information so that in the future, you will be able to load those programs quicker... it has been known to slow vista down at points in the first few days of using it, but after a few days the problem subsides and it becomes a big help. it's also the thing that reserves a lot of your ram, but if other programs need the ram, superfetch releases the ram to those programs, so it's not a problem.

 

I found out what was causing it, well... at least a theory.

I had a second HDD in the notebook and whenever I accessed anything on that drive it would randomly do that "lock-up" scenario. Now that I took the drive out I seem to no longer have the issue.

The funny thing is that the drive passed all hardware tests so I can't understand why the drive would do that. I did have the the drive in another notebook at one time and it would click every so often but again, it passed hardware tests.