Repeated Stalls

I installed Windows 7 Home Premium (64) yesterday. My computer worked very well with XP and Vista and is rated between 5.2 and 6.9 in the Performance ans Information Tools. But my system seems very bi-polar. It goes from working fantastic to having huge stall sessions. Where opening/closing anything from notepad to firefox to my documents causes the programs to seize up. Freezes are not short and then back to normal. These freezes last anywhere from 2-20 minutes.

No amount of restarts, software install/uninstalls, works. I have ended all necessary processes and done several virus scans. I have not put any of my documents/music/photos onto this machine yet.

I am out of any good ideas. Nothing seems to be malfunctioning and there are periods (like at this very moment, but wait 5 minutes and it will change) where it's working perfectly.

Thoughts?

My first thought is turn off all Windows Visual Display Effects.
Set Visual Display to PERFORMANCE in other words.

Please post back to let us know what this did.

Please post your system specs as well.

Per a few other posts I found online I did turn off my personalization and set my screen to Windows Basic, and turned off transparency. I also found another post that suggested I turn the power setting to High Performance. Neither has seemed to effect this.

Did you mean that or something else?

Specs (best of my knowledge):

Windows 7 Home Premium (64)
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard
Intel Core Duo E8400 3g processor
4 gigs RAM (Gskill i think)
GeForce 9800 GTX video
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 - 160 gigs (109gb free)
** I had a pair in a raid0 until about a month ago, when one died.

Hard drive is by far the oldest part. All the rest was purchased around Xmas last year.

Anything else?

Search for Performance Click on Adjust the appearance & performance of Windows Click Adjust for best performance Click OK

Just read your specs, the above should NOT apply to you.

Also under Power Options (control panel) Click Change what power buttons do, set both to Do nothing

Finally there is a driver for Nvidia that you need, I will see if I can find the link.

The following was an update done automatically by windows tonight. Issues persist.

nVidia - Display - NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Installation date: ‎10/‎23/‎2009 8:46 PM
Installation status: Successful
Update type: Optional
nVidia Display software update released in September, 2009
More information:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20300737
Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

Try this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_...bit_15.49.html

Link originally provided by IAN.

link came out "page not found"

Hmm I just used this link a few days ago, read the post below this one Desktop Manager Degraded.

Fixed the link!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_...bit_15.49.html