Get spikes, offline and online

[Banshee1020]

Either at my desktop, playing a game online or offline, I'm getting spikes every 2 seconds.. This just started happening last night and it is incredibly annoying. I don't know what to do, tried almost everything.. Tried updating chipset, but it said computer did not meet minumum requirements (this confused me, I have 1.5g of RAM, 16gigs of space left, Pentium 4, and an Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT video card). These spikes are driving me insane! Gaming is impossible, especially online.. I have no spyware/adware or viruses (scanned for all last night).. Any help would be GREATLY appriciated!

 

[WitchyOne]

Do you have anything like RAM Idle or any other kind of RAM optimization software installed? There was a post a little farther down that someone was having a similar issue, and this was the cause.

If not, sorry! Wish I could be of more service :wave:

 

[Banshee1020]

No, but will install, thanks.

 

[WitchyOne]

Oh no no! Oops, what I really meant was that if you had these installed, they could be the causes of your problem. I wouldn't advise installing them if you're having this hang issue without them heh. Sorry

 

[Banshee1020]

Haha, no problem.. Installed and it didn't do much, uninstalled now.. Still having the violent spikes though, offline and online =(