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Browser Hanging, Processes with Network Activity Dropping
I have been dealing with a balky system for about two weeks. Some of the symptoms pointed to overheating, and flaky RAM. I purchased and installed an upgraded CPU fan which trimmed 15 degrees Celsius off the CPU which is good, but no great improvement.
I replaced and tripled the amount of RAM from 8Gb to 24Gb, better, but not perfect. The problem I am having now is that in using my Chrome browser, it will become unresponsive. I open IE and it is the same. I have been keeping Resource Monitor open and I notice under "Processes with Network Activity" that the number of processes suddenly drops to about 4-5 processes from 14 processes. If it recovers on its own, which it occasionally does, and the number of processes grows back up to around 14, the problem seems to clear.
My machine is attached via cable to my cable modem at 100 Mbps. My internet connection is 30/50 Mbps. I have another machine sitting right next to it which is Windows 7 Enterprise x64, connected wirelessly, which is having no problems whatsoever. If I shut off the LAN card and turn on my wireless adaptor, it doesn't change anything. Re-booting seems to make things happen again, for a while, but that is hardly a solution. Any suggestions?