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Originally Posted by kevchard  Is antivirus updating. Failing that could be a hardware issue. What other progs are running at the same time?
99% system idle is norm. |
Antivirus is up to date and scanned recently.
I ran Adaware and Spybot - nothing found.
Disc clean-up and defragmented recently.
It doesn`t seem to matter what program is running at the time - Firefox, Outlook, Excel etc - a combination of one or all 3??
There aren`t any extra programs on start-up, just the bare minimum + antivirus.
When it locks up, everything just freezes for a minute or so, then everything is back to normal. It maybe happens once or twice a day.
If I check on the CPU usage, it is normally quite low - 2-3%, BUT the red lamp on the front of the PC is ALWAYS flashing as if the pc is continually working hard.
The only thing I have changed since before this started happening is I reconnected a 2nd HD - which I formatted, it was the old HD I used a while ago without problems. Could this be using excess resourses? (although it is still empty).
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