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dmsuperman

Alright, my system specs first:
Windows XP Pro Corp.
2GB PC4200 533Mhz, tested for 24 hours with no errors
320GB SATA II Seagate HDD, checked for errors, found none
500 Watt Ultra PSU
SATA II Samsung DVD burner
200GB ATA-150 drive, used for backups
EVGA eGeForce 6500 256MB @ 300Mhz clock speed, PCIe
Pentium D 840 @ 3.2GHz
Intel D945GPM motherboard

My problem:
What seems to be randomly, and at times very frequent, at others intermittent, my entire computer sort of stutters. The video and audio freeze for a few milliseconds then unfreeze immediately. I take very good care of my PC, and constantly look in all the startup folders and in process manager in task manager to see what's running, and have an idea of what causes my CPU usages to do what, etc. As I'm writing this, it stutters every 2-5 seconds, but sometimes it doesn't stutter at all. Generally, directly after a reboot it will not stutter at all for a while, though I can't be sure exactly what causes it to start. It's not just a media player or anything, winamp, windows media player, itunes, and even windows noises stutter. When video is playing, it gets worse, usually lasting for almost a second. Even the mouse jerks, which perplexes me. When this happens, there is NO sign of anything that causes it. CPU stays below 10%, hard drive activity light blinks at normal rate, I have over 1GB of memory free. I have my page file on it's own partition and set to 1500 initial, 2085 maximum. It occurs during WMV playback, MP3 playback, AAC playback, anything you can think of, so it's not limited to a codec. I have no idea why this happens, but similar things happen to my friend. It really irks me that I spent over a thousand dollars building this computer but I can't get it to play back a simple audio file. Also, this problem has arisen recently, I'd say within the past few months. Up until then, I had no problems.

I have upgraded to the latest chipset, SATA, audio, & video drivers, flashed my bios, updated windows, you name it I've probably done it. Below I have included my Hijack this log, if it helps:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:23:16 PM, on 3/30/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
C:\xampp\xampp\apache\bin\apache.exe
C:\Program Files\Hamachi\hamachi.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaantmon.exe
C:\xampp\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\DVD\ULCDRSvr.exe
C:\xampp\xampp\apache\bin\apache.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMonTaskbar.exe
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImage\TrueImageMonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\InterVideo\SchSvr\SchSvr.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaanotif.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories\XboxStat.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVAgent2.exe
C:\Program Files\Hamachi\hamachi.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1\program\soffice.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1\program\soffice.BIN
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVSettingsService.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVTaskManagerService.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVLibraryService.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVSchedulerService.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVNetworkService.exe
C:\Program Files\Launchy\Launchy.exe
D:\Tools\CPU Moniter\Dual Core CPU Usage.exe
C:\Program Files\uTorrent\utorrent.exe
C:\Program Files\Trillian\trillian.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVRecordingEngine.exe
C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVRecordingEngine.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
D:\Tools\HiJack This\HijackThis.exe
D:\Tools\InfoTool.exe

O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IntelAudioStudio] "C:\Program Files\Intel Audio Studio\IntelAudioStudio.exe" BOOT
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UltraMon] "C:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMon.exe" /auto
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [OSSelectorReinstall] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Acronis Disk Director\oss_reinstall.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TrueImageMonitor.exe] C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImage\TrueImageMonitor.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Acronis Scheduler2 Service] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Home Theater SchSvr] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\InterVideo\SchSvr\SchSvr.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IAAnotif] "C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaanotif.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UVS10 Preload] C:\Program Files\Ulead VideoStudio 10\uvPL.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Google Desktop Search] "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe" /startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [XboxStat] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories\XboxStat.exe" silentrun
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SigmatelSysTrayApp] sttray.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Startup] "C:\Startup.bat"
O4 - Startup: Adobe Gamma.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Startup: OpenOffice.org 2.1.lnk = C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1\program\quickstart.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Beyond TV.lnk = C:\Program Files\Beyond TV\BTVAgent2.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Hamachi.lnk = C:\Program Files\Hamachi\hamachi.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (Installation Support) - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\Yinsthelper.dll
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{CC21744C-5C23-45C0-8598-92A1B37D9882}: NameServer = 192.168.1.1
O18 - Protocol: ms-help - {314111C7-A502-11D2-BBCA-00C04F8EC294} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\hxds.dll
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\PROGRA~1\Google\GOOGLE~1\GOEC62~1.DLL
O23 - Service: Acronis Scheduler2 Service (AcrSch2Svc) - Acronis - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Adobe Systems - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Apache2 - Unknown owner - C:\xampp\xampp\apache\bin\apache.exe" -k runservice (file missing)
O23 - Service: Ares Chatroom server (AresChatServer) - Ares Development Group - C:\Program Files\Ares\chatServer.exe
O23 - Service: FileZilla Server FTP server (FileZilla Server) - FileZilla Project - C:\xampp\xampp\FileZillaFTP\FileZillaServer.exe
O23 - Service: Hamachi Service (HamachiService) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Hamachi\hamachi.exe" -service (file missing)
O23 - Service: Intel(R) Matrix Storage Event Monitor (IAANTMON) - Intel Corporation - C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Iaantmon.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: mysql - Unknown owner - C:\xampp\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: Remote Packet Capture Protocol v.0 (experimental) (rpcapd) - Unknown owner - %ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.exe" -d -f "%ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.ini (file missing)
O23 - Service: Ulead Burning Helper (UleadBurningHelper) - Ulead Systems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\DVD\ULCDRSvr.exe

Here is a list of the various startup programs:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit

+ C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe Userinit Logon Application Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

+ Explorer.exe Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\explorer.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

+ Acronis Scheduler2 Service Acronis Scheduler Helper Acronis c:\program files\common files\acronis\schedule2\schedhlp.exe

+ Google Desktop Search Google Desktop Google c:\program files\google\google desktop search\googledesktop.exe

+ Home Theater SchSvr InterVideo Schedule Server InterVideo Inc. c:\program files\common files\intervideo\schsvr\schsvr.exe

+ IAAnotif Event Monitor User Notification Tool Intel Corporation c:\program files\intel\intel matrix storage manager\iaanotif.exe

+ IntelAudioStudio Intel(R) Audio Studio Intel Corporation c:\program files\intel audio studio\intelaudiostudio.exe

+ iTunesHelper iTunesHelper Module Apple Inc. c:\program files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe

+ NvCplDaemon NVIDIA Display Properties Extension NVIDIA Corporation c:\windows\system32\nvcpl.dll

+ NvMediaCenter NVIDIA Media Center Library NVIDIA Corporation c:\windows\system32\nvmctray.dll

+ nwiz NVIDIA nView Wizard, Version 110.60 NVIDIA Corporation c:\windows\system32\nwiz.exe

+ OSSelectorReinstall c:\program files\common files\acronis\acronis disk director\oss_reinstall.exe

+ SigmatelSysTrayApp File not found: sttray.exe

+ SunJavaUpdateSched Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition binary Sun Microsystems, Inc. c:\program files\java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\jusched.exe

+ TrueImageMonitor.exe TrueImage Acronis c:\program files\acronis\trueimage\trueimagemonitor.exe

+ UltraMon UltraMon Realtime Soft c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe

+ UVS10 Preload Ulead VideoStudio Ulead Systems, Inc. c:\program files\ulead videostudio 10\uvpl.exe

+ XboxStat XBoxStat.exe Microsoft Corporation c:\program files\microsoft xbox 360 accessories\xboxstat.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

+ Beyond TV.lnk BTVAgent2 Module c:\program files\beyond tv\btvagent2.exe

+ Hamachi.lnk Hamachi Client LogMeIn Inc. c:\program files\hamachi\hamachi.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\dmsuperman\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

+ Adobe Gamma.lnk Adobe Gamma Loader Adobe Systems, Inc. c:\program files\common files\adobe\calibration\adobe gamma loader.exe

+ OpenOffice.org 2.1.lnk c:\program files\openoffice.org 2.1\program\quickstart.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

+ Startup c:\startup.bat

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components

+ Address Book 6 Outlook Express Setup Library Microsoft Corporation c:\program files\outlook express\setup50.exe

+ Browser Customizations Microsoft Internet Explorer Customization DLL Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\iedkcs32.dll

+ Internet Explorer Windows NT User Data Migration Tool Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\shmgrate.exe

+ Internet Explorer Windows Setup API Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\setupapi.dll

+ Internet Explorer 6 IE 5.0 Per-User Install Utility Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\ie4uinit.exe

+ Microsoft Outlook Express 6 Outlook Express Setup Library Microsoft Corporation c:\program files\outlook express\setup50.exe

+ Microsoft Windows Media Player Microsoft Windows Media Player Setup Utility Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe

+ Microsoft Windows Media Player ADVPACK Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\advpack.dll

+ NetMeeting 3.01 ADVPACK Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\advpack.dll

+ Outlook Express Windows NT User Data Migration Tool Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\shmgrate.exe

+ Themes Setup Microsoft(C) Register Server Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

+ Windows Desktop Update Microsoft(C) Register Server Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

+ Windows Messenger 4.7 ADVPACK Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\advpack.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\SharedTaskScheduler

+ Browseui preloader Shell Browser UI Library Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\browseui.dll

+ Component Categories cache daemon Shell Browser UI Library Microsoft Corporation c:\windows\system32\browseui.dll

The one you may have questions about is startup.bat, that's my own script that just runs a php program I wrote to start trillian and a CPU monitor program some time after startup, to let it start programs at different times and not put so much stress on initial boot.

I've spent hours googling, saw something about turning off audio hardware acceleration, I did so but that hasn't cleared anything up.

If you have any questions, just ask I'll tell you. If anyone has any idea why this may be caused, I would greatly appreciate it.

dmsuperman

Also, DMA is enabled on both drives and I have no conflicting devices.

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