System hang? Stuttering

[dapperdan2005]

Helo, the symtoms, well while playing music the comp will just freeze for a sec and the music will stutter and cut out sometimes, then itll start playing again normally. It does this every few minutes, or at random. I have a Intel P4 2.8GHZ 800fsb 1Gig of ram, Geforce 6600GT 80 gig serial ata hard drive, 500W power supply, and sound blaster audigy platinum. Any help here would be great.

 

[kirock]

it sounds like a low memory problem, but with 1GB you should be fine, so either you are having memory hardware probs (which would result in Windows hangs and BSOD) or you have a lot of back ground processes running. A lot of processes running could mean a virus/trojan or spybots. Do you regulary scan for these and run active protection?

If yes to above question, then all I can suggest is a HDD defrag and a page file increase ( virtual memory can be set to 1.5X to 3X your actaully mem size). (set it like this: My Computer/properties/advanced/Performace Settings/Advanced/at the bottom "Virtual Memory", press change.)

If that doesn't help, what application are you using to play your music. Try updating it.

 

[dapperdan2005]

I use MIcrosoft antispyware and antivirus. They are running at all times, and have daily scans. I just defraged my HD the other day, so I will try increasing the virtual memory and see if that helps. Could it be a bios setting?

 

[kirock]

No not in BIOS but it could be a problem with your mimi drivers. Did you check DEvice Manager and look for anything with a flag (!, X, etc) in the Sound, Video, game/then double click on your sound card driver, check for resource conflicts too.

What app are you using MusicMatch JukeBox?, MediaPlayer?

 

[dapperdan2005]

Itunes for windows.