Before you go lobbing memory sticks at the problem, use your task manager to see how much memory is occupied. Does your drive page wildly during the "freeze?" If so, look during that period in your task manager (run taskman.exe) and see if you are actually out of physical memory. On the performance tab you see your CPU usage and memory. Below, total, available, and system cache. If the available physical memory is very low, then yes it's likely memory related. If you then look at your processes tab, you can sort by clicking on the CPU or mem usage columns and see what process is using the most of each. System idle process always takes the highest cpu time, and (likely) the lowest mem usage. But the fact that you fixed this once by unplugging your modem suggests to me that your network interface was actually the problem. However, without detailed information more it is not possible to say. If the problem is intermittent, I would discount available memory as a cause. If your memory was insufficient, you would have problems all the time.
unstresst said:
