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Any ideas of things I could do to fix such a problem? Is anyone else getting it?

Posted By : ricardo of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 6, 2003

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Hey Guys,

I was just wondering if a) anyone else has had similar problems with the following or b) if anyone knows of a fix/possible solution. The problem I'm having almost always occurs when I'm running Mirc (version 6.02), and attempt to receive a file through XDCC send from someone. Oddly enough, a few seconds/minutes after I begin to receive the file from the person through DCC, my computer starts to randomly freeze every few seconds - i.e. the mouse becomes unmovable and from looking at the Performance tab on the Taks Manager, my CPU usage spikes spontaneously every 2/3 seconds to 100% (and hence, I assume, rendering the computer unusable/unstable with the symptoms previously described). This is the first time I've ever had this problem, and it only crept up recently. BTW, I'm running a 1.2 GHz Athlon, with 392 MBs of PC100 RAM, with Windows XP Pro installed on a 30 Gig. Western Digital hard drive. So I tried booting into Safe Mode in Windows XP, running a virus scan (which turned up nothing) and also running Ad-aware (which removed some components, but didn't totally fix the problem). Finally, I even tried starting up the Win XP DOS setup program, and performing a "repair" on the current installation of windows, which didn't seem to fix the problem either. It still occurs usually when I get xdcc/dcc sends from people on IRC. Any ideas of things I could do to fix such a problem? Is anyone else getting it? Could it be related to the fact that I have 3.43 Volts coming out of my 3.3 Volt port in BIOS? Or that my CPU is running at 149 degrees Fahrenheit? Your help would be MUCH appreciated it.

Thanks,

This question was answered on April 6, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.


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Posted by ricardo of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 6, 2003

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