PC hanging

Saul · 12 Jun 2008 at 19:09

I have noticed that my PC sometimes hangs for about 3 seconds when I have tried to access something (e.g. My Computer, Start Menu, Run Dialog, etc.) on the desktop. It never occurs in game. But then I hear a "click" noise from my computer then all resumes.

Is this a hard-drive fault? Motherboard? Memory? I'm pretty stumped but I really want to get to the root of the problem.

Thanks in advance,
- Saul.

Edit:

Also, for those of you who want any specs:
Vista Premium 32-bit
Intel Q6600 @ 3.6GHZ
Asus P5K Premium WiFi-AP
Corsair Dominator 2GB 1066Mhz
2 x Samsung Spinpoint-T 500GB (No RAID)
XFX 8800GT 512MB

Edit 2:

Just been on XFire and its just come clicking again... svchost.exe is taking up a lot of memory (170,000kb approx out of the 2 processes)

EdGey · 12 Jun 2008 at 19:13

i have this problem too

Saul · 12 Jun 2008 at 19:15

Hmmm.... we seem to have some similar specs. I have a Q6600 but its at 3.6Ghz. Do you have to Vista by any chance?

EdGey · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:34

Phatzy · 13 Jun 2008 at 01:56

clicking coming from the pc or the speakers?

edit:this could help you http://ask-leo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_crashs_cpu_maximization_viruses_exploits_and_more.html

Dogoid · 13 Jun 2008 at 02:25

Hard drive fault i would say . Try safe mode and see if it happens. But i have experienced this many times. Back up your data, your drive prob is going to fail.

Saul · 13 Jun 2008 at 15:41

@ Phatzy:
It is definately coming from the speakers. The svchost thing doesn't sound familiar.

@ Dogoid:
Is that definate? It does sound like its coming from the HDD bay... damn... I don't have the money for another HDD...

Edit:
Come to think of it, sometimes the PC doesn't boot up in to Windows (this is very rare, happened twice in 6 months) as it doesn't detect the hard-drive as bootable, fixable by messing with the hard-drive BIOS settings and switching over the bootable devices. Then a few weeks ago, I noticed that every Windows file suddenly became corrupt and wouldn't boot up, coming up with CRC checks failing for the kernal, and the files being corrupt. This was fixed by selecting "Last working settings" or something, then it booted.

Double edit:
Its still in waranty if the warranty is 3 years... I keep all my precious stuff on my older HDD.