System Randomly Pausing

[Phirax]

I have been running Vista x64 on one of my Desktops, and I'm having trouble with the entire system pausing or not responding at random times. The pause lasts anywhere from a few seconds up to 10 seconds. The keyboard doesn't respond but I can move the mouse cursor (but not click). If I continue to type during a pause, when it un-pauses everything I type appears. If I have media playing (either audio or video) it pauses aswell. I have tried everything I can think of to fix the issue, from disabling services such as indexing, superfetch etc, and adjusting the power usage settings. I have noticed that right before the system starts to respond my hard-drive clicks like its starting to spin up. I'm tempted to switch back to using XP because of this problem. Any ideas? (Note: it even paused twice while I was typing this).

My System Info:
MS Vista x64 Home Premium,
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz)
Asus P5W DH Deluxe Mainboard
4 Gbs Corsair PC5300 Ram
Nvidia 8800GTS 640Mb
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum
Compro TV-Mate Gold Plus

 

[geezer10]

try running task manager (ctrl alt del) and see if a process is hogging.

you might also look at resource monitor under performance

good luck

 

[Asky]

I faced the Pause Issue on my only Nforce 4 Motherboard.
It was because i used Nvidias IDE drivers instead of the default ones.

Use the default ones provided by microsoft,do not install the controller drivers that came on the Motherboard CD.
Let us know.

 

[Phirax]

Cheers for the replys,

gezeer, I just ran the resource manager (and task manager) for a few hours, and ironically I didn't get a single pause. But as soon as I closed it the pauses came right back within a few minutes. Probably just a coincidence though.

Asky, my mainboard uses an intel 975X chipset with ICH7 controller not an nvidia based one, and the drivers I’m using are the default ones that Vista installs.