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Posted by: Swilo
After so many hours of use my computer will begin to have video that pauses at regular intervals of about 2 seconds until I reboot. The time it takes to do this is random, and it's usually associated with using my TV tuner. Audio and input will continue as normal.
I have updated drivers for everything in my system.
Tbird 1.4GHz CPU
512 PC2100 RAM
5400 40gig Maxtor HDD
A7M266 mobo
voodoo3 3000 pci video
SBLive x-Gamer audio
Microsoft internet USB keyboard
Intellimouse explorer usb plugged into keyboard
Any ideas?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Sounds like a memory leak issue to me. If the latest drivers don't help, you might have better luck using a memory optimizer program. It will help free up the memory wasted by the leak.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=351
Posted by: Tweaker
It could be what Ion suggested or you can try to
hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and see if Find Fast is running in the background. if it is, select it and hit End Task. Find Fast is a memory hog.
Just in case you want to disable this:
How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer
From the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q158705
The Find Fast Indexer is installed on your computer when you install Microsoft Office 97. Find Fast builds an index to speed up finding documents from the Open dialog box in Microsoft Office programs.
When you install Microsoft Office 97, a shortcut called Microsoft Find Fast is automatically added to the StartUp group. This allows Find Fast to run whenever you start the computer. After Find Fast is started, it automatically builds indexes and updates them in the background.
If you attempt to disable the Find Fast control panel by simply removing the Microsoft Find Fast shortcut from the StartUp group, the following problems may occur:
The index files are not removed from the hard disk. The size of these index files depends on the number and size of Microsoft Office documents you store on your computer.
Microsoft Office programs continue to use the existing index files whenever you click Open on the File menu. When you disable Find Fast by removing its shortcut, the index files are not updated as you create or modify documents. This may prevent you from finding files you want to open, or cause unnecessary delays when you open files.
Disabling the Find Fast Indexer
The correct way to disable Find Fast requires that you delete the Find Fast index files. To do this, use the following steps:
On the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
In the Control Panel window, double-click Find Fast.
In the "Index for documents in and below" list, click the first item.
On the Index menu, click Delete Index. In the Delete Index dialog box, click OK. When you are prompted whether to delete the index, Click OK.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until no more indices are listed.
On the Index menu, click Close And Stop. Then, click OK to stop Find Fast.
Then, do either of the following:
- Remove the Microsoft Find Fast shortcut from the StartUp folder (typically in the Windows folder in the Start Menu\Programs folder).
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- Run the Microsoft Office 97 Setup program in maintenance mode, and remove Find Fast.
To re-enable Find Fast, do either of the following:
Add the shortcut for Microsoft Find Fast back into the StartUp folder. The default command line for the shortcut is the following:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\FINDFAST.EXE
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Run the Microsoft Office 97 Setup program, and reinstall Find Fast.
Also check the fan and blow any dust out of the computer.
Posted by: Swilo
Findfast as never been running on my computer, even after I installed Office2k.
I dusted my computer last weekend, heat is not the issue.
Those stupid "memory management" programs create more problems than they fix, from my experience.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Well if you're using Windows 98 or sooner, you will probably get improved performance by changing your vcache settings and the role of your computer. All you need can be found below..
http://www.geocities.com/profemery/.../speed_win.html
Posted by: Swilo
Don't know how I missed that network server setting.
virtual memory is turned off...
vcache sounds interesting, I'll have to fiddle with that.
Posted by: SKYHN
I use cacheman, its excellent. No problems with it. Its helped me free up ram with games, I have 256mb of ram. Theres also an option to show how much ram you currently have left on the systray and if you run low, you can "Recover Memory Now" which will free up some memory. If the memory is permanently leaked though, it wont free it. Sometimes I get permanent leaked memory after having my PC on for like 10 hours at a time and the only rememdy is a restart.
About the Vcache, if you are familiar with editing your system registry, you may want to go find how to make bigger a bigger Vcache. I have done it and noticed some boost in performance.
I dont know how comfortable you are with editing your registry. I went very carefully and didnt have any problems.
View the attachment for what im talking about.
Posted by: Sarc
How on earth is your system even working correctly with Virtual Memory disabled? 
I've personally only heard of bad things when attempting this on most systems.
Which OS are you using?
Posted by: Darky!
Virtual memory isn't nescisarry if you have lots of ram 
Posted by: Swilo
If you have about 384 MB or more of physical memory it's usually safe to turn off virtual memory.
I tried cacheman months ago. 1 it was a b!tch to install, it didn't like something. 2 it wasn't easy to use at all, and clicking free mem now would just freeze my computer. 3 any other program I've tried doesn't have any real effect on my computer, besides displaying a different number for "free memory."
I'm plenty familiar with editing my registry, I do it all the time. The other day I FORCED MSN to install itself to somewhere other than default by changing about 500 hidden keys in the registry, decided I didn't like MSN, got trillian, uninstalled MSN, and laughed at the time I wasted.
I edited the vcache settings in system.ini, I'll see how it goes after my next reboot in a few days.
Posted by: Delzach
I have two thing to say about your problem. 1 It sounds like it could be heat related with the video card. If the video chip gets too hot it will start to slow down. 2 I don't know if you have a virus program on your comp but there are virus that loop your memory and use it up to cause problems with RAM.
Posted by: Swilo
1) It is NOT overheating, if it was it would be, as you said, slow; not stuttering at regular intervals.
2) I have not had a virus since I disabled windows file sharing, someone had used an exploit and infested my computer with nimda, which I completely removed. I do NOT need anti-viral sh!t on my comp, I'm not a complete idiot who says "Oh, a 2 meg attachment to an email from someone who I dont know!" and then opens it.
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