Solve : Screen Hesitation?

1.	Solve : Screen Hesitation?
Answer» I'm not sure if I am looking at a Windows problem, a driver problem or maybe even a hardware problem with this one. The basic problem is that my screen will start hesitating at regular one second intervals. I can still operate the computer, move the mouse, execute programs, etc but the hesitating makes it very difficult to get anything accomplished. Everything is affected when it starts whether it is a video game, streaming video, music played from the hard drive or what have you. I can't seem to find anything that sets it off such as a program starting up or the computer being on for a given amount of time. Sometimes it might take three hours, other times it might take five minutes. RESTARTING the computer corrects the problem until it starts again which can be another hour later or take just five minutes. Going to standby mode and starting up again also works most times though I have had one or two instances where it did not. I've tried looking at my Task Manager when the problem starts but nothing stands out. Device manager also does not show anything malfunctioning when screen is hesitating. I'd like to avoid wiping the hard drive if at all possible. Actions taken: Updated Video driver, Cleared temporary internet files, cleared cookies, defragged, rain dance, sacrificed a goat. Okay, I'm kidding about the rain dance. Here are the computer specs: Gateway, Intel [email protected] 1.8Ghz, 256M Ram (Yeah, I know I need to get with the times), Windows XP Home Edition version 2002 with Service Pack 2 Video Card: Radeon 9200 Video Driver Version: 8.231.0.0 Thanks!Do you try to kill viurs of your system?May be it's the cause to make you screen hesitating!And anther way you can reformet you system,of course ,it is the worst way you choose!You definitely need more RAM!! Try disabling any startup item that is not absolutely necessary. Run the FEWEST possible programs at any one time. Memory hungry programs causes Windows to have go back and forth to the swap file, resulting in the hesitation. The less you have running at any one time the less the swap file has to be used. Also check the services that are running and disable any that are not needed for your particular USAGE. Indexing MUST go. It can make searches a little faster but with only 256M it causes havoc with everything else.I forgot to mention that if you have a second HD (not just different partition), move the swap file it. With small amounts of RAM, it can give you a dramatic performance boost as it will ALLOW Windows to read and write to both drives sinultaneously. Quote Do you try to kill viurs of your system?May be it's the cause to make you screen hesitating!And anther way you can reformet you system,of course ,it is the worst way you choose! www.techarena.in for you Wangmingstill havent forgot about our indian friends huh GX1?I've run XP on a far lesser system with no hesitation, just slow to open programs. I'd run the kill. Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm Online Malware Scan http://www.ewido.net/en/Okay, Wangming I don't know if maybe you are foreign and simply don't have a grasp of the English language. If that is the case then I can excuse you. If you are some kid that can't be bothered to proof read then please don't respond to anymore posts. I will not even attempt to decypher what your wrote. As for the rest of you, thanks for the advice! I'll start with clearing out anything in the start menu and going from there. You're right, I need more RAM too, if for no other reason than to play my games more smoothly. Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I PUT up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. Quote Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I put up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. embarrassed What kind of officers? Quote Quote Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I put up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. embarrassed What kind of officers? Illiterate ones i suspect.

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I'm not sure if I am looking at a Windows problem, a driver problem or maybe even a hardware problem with this one. The basic problem is that my screen will start hesitating at regular one second intervals. I can still operate the computer, move the mouse, execute programs, etc but the hesitating makes it very difficult to get anything accomplished. Everything is affected when it starts whether it is a video game, streaming video, music played from the hard drive or what have you. I can't seem to find anything that sets it off such as a program starting up or the computer being on for a given amount of time. Sometimes it might take three hours, other times it might take five minutes. RESTARTING the computer corrects the problem until it starts again which can be another hour later or take just five minutes. Going to standby mode and starting up again also works most times though I have had one or two instances where it did not. I've tried looking at my Task Manager when the problem starts but nothing stands out. Device manager also does not show anything malfunctioning when screen is hesitating.

I'd like to avoid wiping the hard drive if at all possible.

Actions taken: Updated Video driver, Cleared temporary internet files, cleared cookies, defragged, rain dance, sacrificed a goat. Okay, I'm kidding about the rain dance.

Here are the computer specs:

Gateway, Intel [email protected] 1.8Ghz, 256M Ram (Yeah, I know I need to get with the times),
Windows XP Home Edition version 2002 with Service Pack 2
Video Card: Radeon 9200
Video Driver Version: 8.231.0.0

Thanks!Do you try to kill viurs of your system?May be it's the cause to make you screen hesitating!And anther way you can reformet you system,of course ,it is the worst way you choose!You definitely need more RAM!! Try disabling any startup item that is not absolutely necessary. Run the FEWEST possible programs at any one time. Memory hungry programs causes Windows to have go back and forth to the swap file, resulting in the hesitation. The less you have running at any one time the less the swap file has to be used. Also check the services that are running and disable any that are not needed for your particular USAGE. Indexing MUST go. It can make searches a little faster but with only 256M it causes havoc with everything else.I forgot to mention that if you have a second HD (not just different partition), move the swap file it. With small amounts of RAM, it can give you a dramatic performance boost as it will ALLOW Windows to read and write to both drives sinultaneously. Quote

Do you try to kill viurs of your system?May be it's the cause to make you screen hesitating!And anther way you can reformet you system,of course ,it is the worst way you choose!

www.techarena.in for you Wangmingstill havent forgot about our indian friends huh GX1?I've run XP on a far lesser system with no hesitation, just slow to open programs.
I'd run the kill.

Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

Online Malware Scan
http://www.ewido.net/en/Okay, Wangming I don't know if maybe you are foreign and simply don't have a grasp of the English language. If that is the case then I can excuse you. If you are some kid that can't be bothered to proof read then please don't respond to anymore posts. I will not even attempt to decypher what your wrote.

As for the rest of you, thanks for the advice! I'll start with clearing out anything in the start menu and going from there. You're right, I need more RAM too, if for no other reason than to play my games more smoothly.

Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I PUT up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. Quote

Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I put up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. embarrassed

What kind of officers? Quote

Quote
Sorry to be snarky but I get sick of piss poor grammar and lazy typing. I put up with enough of that at work and those people are usually officers and upper enlisted. Go figure. embarrassed

What kind of officers?

Illiterate ones i suspect.

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