Hickups -Hickups , and more hickups

[Andy1826]

I hope someone can help me , because I've tried everything on my system, but nothing works...
Here's whats wrong...
Everytime I start a game (Warcraft3-DeusEx2...almost anything, exept a few games)after a few minutes of playing ,my pc stops responding for a few seconds, really frozen , mouse pointer doesnt even move ,etc .....but then works again(normal , fast) for a short period of time...and then again this [-peep-] every time over and over...
Multiplayer or singleplayer dont matter ...
And windows is also not very OK, doesnt have hickups, but sometimes just freezes
In some games I dont have this problem , but most FPS and RTS have this problem.
My pc runs WinXP HE with every updat(SP2incl)installed, DX9c and every recent driver for my system components,barebone , no other unneeded software.
Here are my system specs.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939)
2Gb ram(Corsair)(2x 1024mb stick ,matched pair DDR 400 ,working in Dual Channel)
MSI K8N Nforce 3 NEO2 Platinium
Asus ATI AX800Pro
1, 36Gb Raptor SATA
2, 160Gb WD Caviar SATA
ASUS DVD-R 16x DL
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Not a bad system I'd say, spanking brand new but performance wise it sucks just because the hickups..
For the moment nothing is overclocked, but I think that would make matters worse....
Oh and the PSU is also not the problem , its a 450 watt Coolermaster unit.
Reinstalled everything today...
Thought maybe it was a bad installation of windows or some kind of problem occured with installing software, but nowt.....
Only thing I can do now is flash my bios but I doubt if this going to help..
So if somebody reads this who can help me, or who has the same problem, please contact me...
Thanks ... Andy

 

[folken]

Have you checked your temps? That could be a heat problem.
Try taking out 1gb of that ram and play a game. 2gb of ram can cause slight slow downs, I'm not sure about hickups though.
My old machine did that in games but it did it because it didn't have enough ram and would be chewing on swap space. Check and see how much ram is being used when you are playing a game that hickups, maybe XP Home doesn't know wtf to do with that much ram so it is using swap.

<A HREF="http://www.folken.net/myrig.htm" target="_new">My precious...</A>

 

[Andy1826]

Thanks for the advice, going to try that now, but temps should'nt be any problem as I have not more like ,give or take 50-60°c.(dunno in farenheit),I have extra cooling by means of 3 extra 120mm fans........
Thumbs up, and i hope its going to work..
cheers
Andy

 

[Andy1826]

Yep , this fixed the problem, my PC was using virtual memory instead of the real 2GB
I still dont understand why issues like this arent fixed with SP2
I mean, am I the only one with 2GB of ram?
Think not.............
Thanks for helping out.