cpu peaks mouse lag 5384 4

I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

Have you updated the video card drivers? Could be it. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Ji?? Fiala" wrote in message

I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

No, unfortunatelly this is not the case :o( I tried the new nvidia beta drivers. Thanks though.
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Have you updated the video card drivers? Could be it. -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Ji?? Fiala" wrote in message I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

Download SysInternal's Process Explorer Tool, it should help you to isolate what is causing the processor % spikes.
"Jiøí Fiala" wrote in message

I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

Thanks! Its DPCs - Deferred Procedure Calls. Its performance graph looks like a haircomb with evenly distributed spikes of similar height. Anyone knows what this means?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message

Download SysInternal's Process Explorer Tool, it should help you to isolate what is causing the processor % spikes.
"Jiøí Fiala" wrote in message I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

DPC's are used by either a device driver or by the kernel. Could be that one of the device drivers you have installed is badly written. When writing device drivers there are certain rules you need to take in account. One of these rules is to have the amount of processor time for a DPC as low as possible. So having a high number of DPC's is not necessarely a problem but the processor time the DPC needs to execute is very important because it runs in the active thread and it might hurt the performance of the process you are running like for example a game or even in your case Windows. That's also why Microsoft signs drivers with the WHQL logo they test for example the microseconds DPC's need to execute which needs to be under a certain limit.
What you can do is to see if this behavious is being caused by a certain application.
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jir? Fiala" wrote in message

Thanks! Its DPCs - Deferred Procedure Calls. Its performance graph looks like a haircomb with evenly distributed spikes of similar height. Anyone knows what this means?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message Download SysInternal's Process Explorer Tool, it should help you to isolate what is causing the processor % spikes.
"Jiøí Fiala" wrote in message I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

It seems to be caused by faulty Nvidia driver. MS's driver in 5384 caused the system to be virtually unusable with my Sparkle GeForce 6600, Nvidia's newest driver helped alot, but there are still minor halts every 2 seconds... Never happened in XP and Vista builds prior 5365.
Thank you very much for response, though.
"Gabriel Lozano-Mor?n" wrote in message

DPC's are used by either a device driver or by the kernel. Could be that one of the device drivers you have installed is badly written. When writing device drivers there are certain rules you need to take in account. One of these rules is to have the amount of processor time for a DPC as low as possible. So having a high number of DPC's is not necessarely a problem but the processor time the DPC needs to execute is very important because it runs in the active thread and it might hurt the performance of the process you are running like for example a game or even in your case Windows. That's also why Microsoft signs drivers with the WHQL logo they test for example the microseconds DPC's need to execute which needs to be under a certain limit.
What you can do is to see if this behavious is being caused by a certain application.
-- Gabriel Lozano-Morán The .NET Aficionado http://www.pointerx.net
"Jir? Fiala" wrote in message Thanks! Its DPCs - Deferred Procedure Calls. Its performance graph looks like a haircomb with evenly distributed spikes of similar height. Anyone knows what this means?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message Download SysInternal's Process Explorer Tool, it should help you to isolate what is causing the processor % spikes.
"Jiøí Fiala" wrote in message I have a nasty problem in 5381 and 5384.4. My CPU peaks every other second, resulting in a temporary systom halt (cursor stops, sound interrupts, hard drive pauses...). This happenned to me in previous builds only when installed to SATA drive. In 5381 and 5384, it doesn't matter if I install it on IDE or SATA, the problem is persistent
My config:
Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97
Any ideas? TIA

Jiøí Fiala Wrote:

I have a nasty problem Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Mobo Gigabyte K8VT800 1,5 GB RAM DDR IDE and SATA drives (non-RAID) GeForce 6600 AGP Onboard Realtek AC97 Any ideas? TIAFor Vista/U 64-bit, I've got the same CPU (E6 step/754), same RAM size, a 6200 AGP, PATA WD200 (and WD250, which I used to try the 32-bit

Vista/U). With the MS video driver installed 80% of the time the system was dead, and with the Nvidia driver installed (whatever the most recent was), 20% of the time is was dead. using the S/XGA video (no acceleration) was fine. Neither MS nor nvidia had an acceleration button in the troubleshoot panel (disabled button, actually). I bought an ATI 9600 (fanless) for not much, for the purpose of seeing if ATI is a little bit more agreeable. As mentioned, both the 32-bit and the 64-bit Vista versions have the same problem. This is a dfi nforce3 250 board. It runs xp64 fine.
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