Short random pauses/freezes?

[Bohab]

Recently I reinstalled Windows 7 on my laptop. With that I installed all the drivers and software I had before. Before the reinstall I created a backup copy of my EQ directory and then moved it over once everything was complete.

- eqgame.exe running in compatibilty mode.
- The user account has full administrator rights and eq is running as administrator.
- Cleared out all my previous logs.
- The NVIDIA control panel set to use the NVIDIA graphics card and not the on-board graphics card.
- Edited shortcut for EQ that tells it to use 1 core: "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 eqgame.exe patchme"

For the most part everything is the same... but here is the problem.

I get a random pause every now and then (maybe 3 times for every 5 minutes) where EQ just stops. It looks like the game has locked up but then it will release after a second or two and everything will be normal again.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone happen to know a fix?

Thanks!