Stutters!

[carlos]

Just installed Windows XP again n all was well for a few hours......now the system seems to be stuttering - freezing for a fraction of a second every 1 second or so....i thought is was the mouse but on shutdown the music stutters in the same rhythmic way.....anybody got any ideas? Tried system restore, no joy - tried to restore to an image ive got, problem persists.....Any help would be appreciated...thanks in advance....Carlos

[pauln90]

Did you do a clean install of XP ie did you format the hard drive,or did you install over the existing XP.

When you reinstalled windows did you install all the motherboard drivers especially ones for your video.

Is the pc overheating.

Have you looked in device manager to see if all the hardware devices are installed properly .

Have you looked at the system information within event viewer to see what errors that is reporting.

Answers to the above questions may provide clues to your problems.

[carlos]

Thanks t'ya both...fixed it now.....the problem was that there were 2 hard drives on the primary link and 2 optical drives on the secondary....the two opticals were the wrong way round on the cable...switched em round....problem solved!! Cheers.

[Thrasher1504]

I'd also check the hard disk for errors too. There may be surface damage to the disk.