You mention network games, you haven't got a network card configured for DHCP have you? It may be polling for a DHCP server when you think its locked up.

 

to tell you the truth i havent got a clue!!

But ill explain this,

Champ Man network game, When ever im the host when we got to a game it freezes and dies on us, then when my brothers the host runs fine, just dead slow because the database is on his computer and his goes slow as ****

We've got to netgear F311's PCI adapters, and netgear 4-port router!

thats it!