Macbook Pro - unconscious for a few seconds every few seconds...

Question

Hei!
Today my Wacom tablet - an ebay buy - came in, andhappy as I was I downloaded and installed the latest wacom drivers immeadiately... It went fine, but after a while, it started lagging a bit. Well, I thought, must be the Rosetta-running software, let's just restart, couldn't harm. OK, restarted - lagging was worse... well - let's restart again, while having the tablet unplugged. I did it - and now it's even worse, the computer's nearly unusable now, unconscious for 5 seconds, here for three, unconscious for ten, here for 4, on and on.. I do have repaired Disk Permissions after the first restart, and even checked the disk - nothing wrong it says. The driver's universal.
Does anyone know what to do? I'd really like to use this tablet, and I totally love my MBP...
hmm...
Jojo
edit - still have 20 gig free HD space and at the moment about a gig free Ram.
edit2 - activity monitor doesn't report high processor usage, but still CoreDuoTemp/Speedit say its 71°c hot - and still getting up. it reports running at 1.5 GHz at the moment.
I DO have lifted it a bit from the table to let it 'breathe'!

Answer 1

Can you say what startup items you deleted?
I'm having problems with my MBP intermittently hanging, much like you describe, though thankfully not as often. I've removed miscellaneous things, like the known-to-be-problematic MagicMenuEnabler from StuffIt and an old Wacom driver, and I think things are better, but still not good. I'm seeing extremely long delays doing various things on the system and even just in the middle of typing, such as (a few actual measurements):
Time to open:
System Preferences 35 sec (other times < 2 sec)
Eudora 45 sec (other times < 4 sec)
Safari (and show Google) 25 sec
Time for actions:
Click Applications in Finder sidebar 22 sec (until apps show and spinner stops)
Press and hold command-tab 7-14 sec (until tab-dock appears)
New message in Eudora 4 sec (other times instantaneous)
Save message in Eudora 3 sec (other times instantaneous)
Close a window in Eudora 2 sec
Pauses mid-typing in Eudora 4 sec
Reply to message in Eudora 5 sec
Switch windows in Eudora 4 sec
After cleaning out everything I could find, I still see the following error messages in the console.log, which I'd like to find an explanation for, but I don't think they can be the sole cause of these intermittent hangs, because the hangs are much more frequent than these log entries:
Jun 20 07:07:28 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 07:15:23 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 07:49:20 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 08:15:35 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 09:08:10 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 09:15:37 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 10:08:24 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 10:15:38 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 11:08:27 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 11:15:44 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 12:08:34 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 12:15:52 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 13:08:44 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 13:15:52 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 14:05:58 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Jun 20 14:15:52 Luggage kernel[0]: (63: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Note the regularity... Roughly 8 minutes after the hour and 15 minutes after the hours, with rare exceptions. Worrisome, but, like I said, my intermittent hangs are much more frequent than this.
MacBook Pro 17/2.16   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   (8I2032)