> Ok sorry that didn't help. It was a flyer. Just saw a problem similar to[color=blue]
> yours in the XP newsgroup and that's how it was resolved. The next step
> would be to look at the video driver.
>
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> Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
>
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I updated my driver to the catalyst that came out jan 29 but that didn't
help. I made some more screen shots after I discovered that only one of the
two cpu's are used during the spikes. I know that it's not actually two cpu's
but it looks that way in task manager because of the hyperthreading. Maybe
Vista doesn't like hyperthreading?

[url]http://i7.tinypic.com/35lxbo3.png[/url] problem
[url]http://i5.tinypic.com/2remdn7.png[/url] plain

This time I rebooted the computer, installed the new video driver and let it
idle. Then I took the first screen shot and when it started freezing again I
closed all applications and let it idle again. The red marks are cpu spikes
created by me when i opened snipping tool and when i made the window larger.