I used to have a problem where sometimes my computer would just freeze for less than a second.
The screen freezes and the sound is replaced by a weird garbled sound.
Then it just went away, and I don’t know why, but now it seems to have come back.
Sometimes it just keeps happening no matter what I do, but sometimes it goes away after a few restarts.
I have no clue what might be causing this.
Any help?
edit: problem fixed: slab of dust on heatsink caused overheating
Does it happen when you perform a certain action with a certain programme?
Nope, just at random times. I think it might be a driver issue. Going to update my drivers.
Edit: I reinstalled my sound drivers. It seems to be gone now, so this topic is pretty useless :retard:
God damn it, it’s happening again.
Might be your network card, try going into the task manager and disabling devices one by one and see when it stops doing that.
My network card is disabled in BIOS. Maybe my wireless device then?
I don’t see anything where I can disable devices in the task manager, though, don’t you mean the device manager?
Sry yeah that’s what I mean, my brain is still asleep…
Try disabling the sound card if it keeps freezing, it could be a hardware problem.
The problem is, it’s hard to test. It’s become less frequent with the new sound drivers, and I don’t know how to reproduce it.
Hmm… your thread reminds of of this: https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=2830.
EDITL god dammit! I think I might have the problem too… oh boy…
So do you only have this problem when playing music or other audio?
I’m not sure, because I’m pretty much always playing music or some other form of audio.
And now it’s way too infrequent to do any kind of testing.
But hey, thanks for the help.
Edit: I just skimmed through that thread, I’ll try disabling the dvd drives and shit, maybe that’ll help.
Edit2: I guess it might be wireless card, but there’s not much to do without internet, and since it’s so infrequent, I’m not going to be able to test that.
Virus scan? It probably isn’t a virus, but you can never be too safe when your computers acting up.
My computer does it only in online games (CS:S etc) and the sound doesn’t do anything weird, also it lasts less than a second, but never happens during a movie or playing gta4…
Definitely not a virus, I recently did a complete maintenance run for my computer.
It was doing it again while watching some videos with VLC.
I just disabled the DVD drives, I’m curious if it’ll still happen now.
Virus scanners don’t ensure that you don’t have a virus, just sayin’. 
Well ok, but there isn’t really any other way to know, is there?
It’s not the DVD drives or the wireless card. 
Whats your HDD drive like? Is it an old one, thats almost full? Your system can skip and pause while it waits for the HDD to catch up.
I have plenty of free space, and both my HDDs are less than two years old. I also recently defragmented and did a disk check.
Well, I dusted out the case and made sure everything was plugged in well, and it seems to be gone now. Hopefully it won’t come back.
Well, it came back.
It only seems to happen when I’m gaming. Plugging the hard drives and shit out and back in again helped last time, but this time it came back rather quickly.
The PlugPlay service CPU usage in resource monitor seems to go up when it happens.
Maybe I should buy a new SATA chord? Unless it’s my IDE drive Guess I should do some testing tomorrow.
Here’s a thought: Check for overheating. My brother had a problem similar to this and it was caused by a faulty fan on his video card. Maybe there’s someplace that’s overheating in your computer?
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