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Windows 7 Freezing in Intervals
Hey everyone. My system consists of the parts below:
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4
8GB OCZ DDR2800 RAM
SLI 9800GTX+
Western Digital 640GB HDD
I recently installed Windows 7 Pro. However, I've been encountering a problem that I didn't have with XP. After I boot my system, every 4 seconds, the system freezes for a moment, then resumes. As you can probably guess, this is aggravating.
At first it didn't start until I started using Firefox. I noticed it was using more memory than usual, and after I closed FF, the system went back to normal. However, it started again after I started transferring music from one partition on my hard drive to the other, and now it doesn't stop no matter what.
I noticed that before the system froze momentarily, the CPU usage would drop to 0%, then start up again when the system resumed. I've tried updating my motherboard drivers, along with Windows Updates, but nothing seems to work. My laptop which is running build 7100 works flawlessly, and I'm fairly clueless at this point.
I've reinstalled Windows 7 twice already, and it's happened both times. Any idea of what could be causing this?