m6400 vista64 2-3 second freezes

Hey all

I am experiencing some weird freezing issues on my machine, a m6400 covet, vista64 ultimate, 8GB ram, 3700 GPU.

It seems to be happening while browsing mostly, I don't notice it while gaming on WOW. What happens is Firefox or IE freezes while browsing for 2-3 seconds, and the task is locked, it's usually in transition to another page, while some resources are loading. There is no disk queue, CPU spike, IO spike I can see.

I am using an intel X-25M ssd. Page file is off, temp files are on my 320GB hard drive, so I can't really think of what's causing it. I went on a task killing spree and it doesn't seem to help. I also ran IE to see if it happens there and it does, and FF in safe mode does not help.

Anyone experience this?

 

Have you checked the DPC latency of your laptop? You can check it with this program. If you get latencies over 2000-3000 microsseconds that could be the cause.

If you do have high latencies, post back here, there are a number of things you can do to fix it or minimize its impact

 

Thanks HerrKaputt, I just tried it, max was 600 microseconds, average is 200-300 us.

It's strange, it seems to behave better in other apps, it seems browsing is odd. It's not A/V because I just disabled it. My wife's $400 dell is browsing better than my 5K notebook!

 

Then that's probably not the cause.

Can you check the network traffic on your laptop? Maybe some other application (like spyware) is using a lot of your bandwidth.

 

You appear to be experiencing what we SSD aficionados fondly recall as 'stuttering'. While the Intel X25M is not known to have pervasive stuttering issues, I think it's not uncommon. You may want to post in the SSD thread to double-check.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4579403#post4579403

 

Thanks Monakh, I agree it may be that. I am going to swap it out with a 100G drive I have to test it. Boy, whatever it is I don’t like it!