Laptop Problems

antifreeze

<div class="IPBDescription">Please Help, It's driving me crazy</div> I got myself a new acer laptop a few months ago because my old laptop got dropped and my insurance company sent me this thing. For some reason every few seconds (about 15-20)my laptop seems to freeze up for a second or 2. If i'm moving my mouse the movement won't register so my pointer doesn't move and if im typing the keys i press don't register. This is obviously very annoying because i have t double check everything i type, so everything below this line i'm not going to check.

So, ve you had this problem. Do you have anya why this is happening. My latp spec's can ound <a href='http://www.acer.co.uk/acereuro/page4.do?dau22.oid=5692&UserCtxParam=0&GroupCtxParam=0&dctx1=17&ctx1=UK&crc=3022410879' target='_blank'>here</a>

Simply saying Acer's suck wont help nmatter how true it actually is.

Edit: Typo <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Actually it's to say the model is 1682 and it has had a spyware virus scan.

BulletHead

I say throw it at em... tell em it's broke and doesn't work right, then show em <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

theclam

You've probably got some extra processes running that are slowing down your computer.

Drfuzzy

Yea, I say chew them out about sending you a piece of **** and demand a better one. Come on, any big company will do that for a unsatisfied customer <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

antifreeze

<!--QuoteBegin-theclam+Apr 8 2005, 12:45 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (theclam @ Apr 8 2005, 12:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You've probably got some extra processes running that are slowing down your computer.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, i decided to double check the processor usage after you said that. So first i looked at speedswitch (Controls the CPU clock speed) and see what it says and it had some crazy spikes on it, riht on the image. So i open up task manager and hit the screenshot button when the cpu usage goes high. Well i take the screen shot but for some reason the cpu usage doesn't match whats been used on the task list. Any idea why? Could this be causing the problem?


Edit:
As crazy as it sounds i cut the bit off the bottom of te task manager. But when i took the shot it said 52%

Omega_Death

Either 1.) You're experiencing horrid mouse lag.
OR 2.) Your comupter needs a good old format.

I'd try #2 first, backup all your stuff and have a formatting party. Hey I know it sucks but it kills damned near everything that's messing with your system.

semipsychotic

I had a problem like this a while back, and the problem was in a faulty service that attempted to start itself, but was never able to start itself, and it sucked up CPU cycles as it tried to start until the computer was shut down.

Check under your administrative tools for the services list, and look for anything that's listed as "Starting..." perpetually. Another indication of this problem would be a spike in the CPU usage by one of your SVCHOST.EXEs.

Also, you might want to run an even more in-depth sypware search. At least one spyware strain has been known to hide itself from the task manager. Actually, the only one I know of is detailed on this guy's page:
<a href='http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html' target='_blank'>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html</a>
It's CWS.Realyellowpage. If you don't use IE, you might not see the immediate effects. However, I figure that if it is as devious as charged, then it wouldn't make itself incredibly obvious by sucking away your processing power.

By the way, you might want to deactivate some of those other processes, for simple optimization. Good grief, I didn't know that the iPod slapped put two processes onto your system. It makes me even more glad that I don't have one.

*EDIT* By the way, you might want to investigate some of those other processes. I have pretty much 30 running in my backround; you seem to have more. The best way to investigate is by just throwing the process name into Google. The first result will probably bring you one of the process listings located a <a href='http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/' target='_blank'>this site</a>, which will let you know if it's anything bad.

BulletHead

SpyBot is your friend

So is Diskeeper

So is more RAM

Dude, check your total paging file usage... it looks like you're loosing a lot of your system (charge) to high profile programs

You only REALLY need like, 5 running... explorer, spybot, teatimer (part of spybot) and then the program you are using

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theclam

It may have something to do with your processor switching speeds.

antifreeze

Well things seem to be fixed now. After disabling about 10 services all of which were running fine but i didnt need and cutting down my processes to 29. I also discovered that the cpu spikes were caused by speedstep's poling method, so when i disabled poling the cpu hovers without flapping at about 4% usage. Thats with task manager open so it's using most of that 4%.