So there is an illness that seems to show up on some computers, and none of the technical doctors as far as I can tell, know how to solve it, or what is the cause of it. Sounds a lot like hiccups, which I don't believe has a known cause. Coincidentally this illness is similar to hiccups. Every couple seconds the computer will freeze for about half a second. This in itself is not a huge issue, however it causes all functions to take a significant amount of time longer then normal. An example is shutting down. My laptop, which currently suffers from hiccups if a certain situation arises, has taken more than half an hour to shut down when it had no programs running.
For the last two weeks I have been battling this illness to little success. However I have eliminated several hypothesis. Following is the list of suspects that have been cleared.
1. Overheating
2. Virus (as far as scans show)
3. Intense CPU usage
4. Intense RAM usage
5. Peripherals
6. Any specific program (does not eliminate processes or services)
7. Extended use*
*unless the system goes idle
Strangely enough however, there have been various means of holding off the worst cases of hiccups. Performing a window update, deleting a large amount of data from the c drive, and physically cleaning the inside of the computer all helped when the hiccups were appearing immediately on boot up. Others have solved the problem completely by turning a service off, or cleaning the computer, but most have had to reformat.
This is a very peculiar situation, where no one knows what causes such a serious problem. I look forward to some day learning a "cure".
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