Slow laptop but in an annoyingly strange way

[Taekwon-joe]

Has anyone else ever experienced really long pauses when doing anything on their computer? I recieved my dell vostro 1500 two days ago and it is annoying the crap out of me. Basically it seems to just freeze when doing any simple task like opening a window or flicking between tabs in a window.

For example. I have steam opened at the moment and everytime I change tab like going from the community tab to the my games tab, the whole system freezes for about 2 minuites and then continues as normal like nothing happened.

Also as I'm typing this message it keeps freezing and firefox will have the "(not responding)" thing beside it but then it will continue again.

At first I thought it was just silly old dell and its bloatware so I reinstalled windows but to no success. I then heard about vista and its indexing thing. I decided to turn that off but it hasn't made a difference.

I had this problem before I connected the laptop to the internet so I don't think it is some sort of virus.

The laptop has:
2.2GHz Core 2 duo
2GB of RAM
8600 GT

Has anyone out there had a similar problem before? How did you solve it?

Thanks in advance.

[swampmonkey]

If you only recieved it 2 days ago i'm asuming it's still under warrenty, if so, send it back. Why bother trying to sort the problem yourself when Dell should do it for you. I've never really been fond of Dell machines but their after service is pretty good.

[Fishmonster]

Yeah, sounds like a return to me. Sounds like something hardwarey is cocking up. Like Overheating or something. Not that I really know much.

[Scribbly]

Mm I was about to type "reinstall windows" but you already did that.

Send it back, I'd say

[Taekwon-joe]

Problem fixed. The nice man from dell called this morning and popped in a new motherboard.

Me = :D