Wied problem that needs a comp guru

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Wierd problem that needs a comp guru

Ok, I can't figure out at all what is wrong with my computer and need help from someone who knows what they're doing. Here are all the info I can give:

I formatted my computer two days ago. 1 day after the format at night (after the comp has been on the whole day), the computer would work for 1 min then freeze for about 7 secs and it would just keep doing this. So, I opened it up and cleaned it (found a ton of dust on my cpu heat sink fan thing) and it worked good for 5 hours after that. The next day, I wake up to use it and it worked fine until midnight and did the same thing again so I shut it off. Right now (third day), it's been on for about 10 mins and it gave me one of those freezes again but just one only. BTW, I went in the task manager and looked under the performance tab and found this graph (yesterday while the freezes were going on):
www.geocities.com/iamjico/graph2.bmp

Notice how every 8 blocks (approximately 1 min) the cpu usage shoots up for one block then comes back down. Those are the periods where the computer freezes and I can't do anything. Also, notice the small bump to 20% usage two blocks after each shoot up (I don't know what those are).

Is this even a hardware problem? Could it be a software problem that happened after I formatted my computer and was installing all the new stuff that I needed? My cpu is usually below 40 degrees under full load.

Appreciate any help I can get.

System specs:
2400+ AMD Athlon XP
40 GB WD HD
80 GB WD HD
GE Force 3 64 MB
Syntax SV266A mobo
Volcano 12 cpu fan
 
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A. What operating system do you have (sorry if it shows in the bmp but I can't view here at school, will edit post when I get home.)
2. Are you using DSL (verizon or the like)
III. What programs (if any) were you running while it was doing this. (Again can't look at image)
 
I'm running windows XP and using verizon DSL. The first time this happened, I just had paint up and was doing a little work in it. Second time, I had the pokerroom.com software up (been running it for ages w/o any problems) and a few ie's.
 
Were you connected to the internet when it was doing this or was it disconnected. I had a problem with my old dell (when I had DSL) where it would lag like you describedwhen it wasn't connected to the DSL (ethernet unplugged). By ending the SVCHost that used the most memory it would fix the problem. However this was back when I didn't know what SVCHost did (all I knew was that it fixed it). So you could try that but I don't know what services you might be ending.
 
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