Wierd problem that I've solved

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wannabedamned

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Well my computer was stopping and starting, mouse cursor freezing and moving again, or movies stopping and starting again, Emulators pausing and moving again. Now the system is overclocked, but it's prime stable for 24 hours at 2.9ghz. So I knew that wasnt the cause. Now I reseated my heatsink with a fresh thermal paste application and in doing so had to take out all my PCI devices and reseat them afterwards. Now from memory I had put the devices back in the wrong order, my Wireless card and my network card had swapped positions.

So... I turned off the machines and swapped the cards back to their initial positions and wouldnt you know it. The problem has gone away :confused:

My question to you guys is....WHY lol

Why on earth would that fix the problem, why on earth would that have caused the problem!!

Like I say, its all solved and I'm rock solid again. Just wondered if there was a reasoning.
 
A german perfectionist spirit maybe watched your mistake? :p

Eityher that, or i'm baffled, but good to hear its gone :)
 
It might be worth checking your mobo manual, certain cards might have to go in one particuler slot, just a thought.:)
 
i remember once , i had a pc that would reset,bsod and generaly fault out all the time.
after running the usual tests and getting no where, it turned out to be the mouse :eek:

unbelievable but true, never underestimate even the basic of pc mechanics.
 
used to have issues with IRQ addresses which may match the complications explained especially with the resolution being the moving of the cards around

to put further explanation to this (and someone may correct my very basic understanding, please do if i'm incorrect!!)

each PCI (and indeed every) device gets assigned an interrupt during which it can communicate with the rest of the board if too many devices get given the same IRQ then you can get the stuttering explained by the OP. by reseating the devices the IRQs where altered and when you swapped them back they may have been altered again but not to the setting which caused the initial stuttering

last time this occurred to me was on an old 754 system where if i can remember correctly the SPU and GPU where on the same Interrupt which caused the sound to pop every so often. i havnt seen it in ages on any new system so i figured they had altered the method of doing things but sounds like you have had this problem
 
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