PC Pauses

[Havoc]

Hi,

I have recently built myself a new PC with an IP35 Pro, 2GB DDR2 800mhz RAM, X1950Pro, and a E4300 C2D. Since It has been operational, the PC often pauses, for a second, and then carries on, it's very noticeable when listening to music, but affects the whole machine. Does anyone have any ideas, what it could be, or how to fix it. On another note I've been told it could be the pagefile, according to task manager, it's running at 312MB. Anyone know if that's too low, or how to fix it?

Thanks

 

[Dwarfer]

mine used to do this untill I realised I hadn't installed the motherboard drivers (the cd that comes with mobo). if you've already installed the mobo drivers from CD try re-installing

ps, pagefile is found in Control Panel > System properties > advanced > Performance settings > advanced.. try changing it too a good 1440mb

hope this helps

 

[donkey42]

312MB

312Mb is way too low. the pagefile / swapfile should be about double the amount of installed RAM, however, however some software requires a much greater pagefile for the software to even run

BTW: set your pagefile minimum to 4048 & maximum to 4048, this will also stop Windows continually resizing the pagefile (as Windows always changes the pagefile size)

if you don't play any of the latest games you can safely disable you pagefile if you have 1Gb of more RAM

do you play games, latest or not ?