My PC lags periodically!
 

for 5minutes it works great

LAGGING

for 5minutes it works great

LAGGING

and so on... what could be wrong??? It doesnt matter what I do at the lag period, everything lags then! :helpme

Heat?

Soon-to-die harddrive?

fucked up antivirus/trying to update it but the update site is offline

etc etc

Be more specific, what kind of computer you have? windows xp? sp1? sp2? :upsidedow

Hmm seem to be the new virus attacking XP SP2 machine and 2003

so update your antivirus software or if you dont have one get AVG Free edition or you can try (30 days trial) Kaspersky

and also do a windows update :upsidedow

Its XP SP2, Im thinking to run adaware + virus catcher.

Talking about the heat, Ive already cleaned my cooler :) Works better now :thumbsup

HDD? I dont know how to check if its dying :helpme

And I dont have any antivirus :)

If it is a Pentium I would put money on it being a faulty chip. To find out, go into BIOS and disable the Hyper Threading

Athlon Thunderbird

Spyware situation maybe?

I've killed many hard drives. If your fan is all set I'm betting its the hard drive.

when it lags to cpu usage or mem usage jump way up?

Spyware detection and virus detection in progress....
See ya in a while :)

mine does the same thing

Hm... it's probably OS or RAM related then. Get Memtest to test the memory

you need more RAM

sounds almost like mine
except mine freezes up 30secs.. 1min then goes back to running fine

happens only when run MSN/MIRC

if I do stuff without thos eon it.. runs good

in any case.. gonna be reformating it anyways.. hopefully fixes probs.. I hate formatting and reinstalling everything

maybe spyware, it can do some crazy things

Adaware helped! :) I feel great now! :)

Something talking to another pc.....

sounds like u need a upgrade, not enough ram prob