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Hi,

i've just built a new system with the following;
Silvrstone sugo
E8500
DFI p45-tr2s jr MATX
ATI 4870
2GB ballistix 1066

Now every or so minutes when installing software or on the web the system just stops and pauses for about a minute. Then suddenly the hardrive can be heard to kick back in and everything starts working again... Does anyone know what this might be?

I can still move the cursor around but can't click on anything. Could it be because The motherboard has the 800mhz RAM bios version? I haven't found the right bios version to flash it with yet for my 1066 RAM
 
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Sorry, vista x64

Could it be my raptor giving up perhaps? Windows memory diagnostics finds no errors
 
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Don't press the pause button

:rolleyes: :o

My setup did this

M2N32-SLI Deluxe, with Vista 64. It was a borked chipset driver installation; the whole system would just stop and then resume again in a couple of seconds. In the end I had to reformat Vista to get it to work properly again.
 
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You know what.. I did install my chipset a little later than a little later than a lot of my other software... actually a good few hours after i put programs on. Perhaps a reformat is best?
 
Change Vistas power settings so that it doesn't power down your hard drives.
 
i did have the RAM undervolted so I've put it up to 2V - trying this now

Running lots of windows and no pauses....
 
ok so it wasn't the memory. have now selected the 'high performance' power plan - lets see how she goes

I'm pretty sure its the HD - no random seeks or anything when it pauses. Changed hard drive option on power plan to never power down
 
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I think it's worked, time will tell! Will post back in bit.

My other issue was trying to set the Memory to 1066 as the board didn't have this option but I set it to the 333/800 option which has made it 1001 which is close enough I guess
 
I think this problem has gone. I get the odd pause when using firefox but I think that could just be the effect of doing so many things in lots of windows and only using 2GB perhaps?
 
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try the driver solution that I mentioned before :)

Uninstall all chipse drivers and serial ATA drivers etc, then try installing them again.
 
Thanks, tried that I'm afraid. Did a reformat and fresh install and did them first on list.

Having said that it hasn't done it in a while. i did have a lot of windows updates running at the time. mindless optimism perhaps but perhaps something has taken effect.
 
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At the moment I'm using a 74gb raptor - no errors detected in HD tune

But it's too loud so I've ordered a 250GB western digital just to put my OS on and local files
 
On one of my systems with a raptor, I get a small delay, then a click from a drive literally half a second, then everything is fine again. I have never figured out what casues that issue :(
 
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