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akiwi
Hi
Using Win XP SP2 with all updates.
A few weeks ago I started getting some svchost related problems.
Sometimes I get an "attempt to read address ......" error message
reported. Sometimes I get a system "lockup" where my hard drive
becomes continuously busy and the system runs very slowly. After a
while, low C drive space is reported. Task manager won't run and
attempting to restart takes a long time (several minutes) for the
restart to happen (if it happens at all), - upon restart/reboot the
"lockup" resumes with the hard drive continuously busy and C drive
space falling. Somehow the process eventually stops if I let it run
but I'm left with several hundred MB of less C drive space than I had
before.
With the latest occurrence of this, after the system became usable
again, I found two svchost crash dump files (of zero size) in
windows/pchealth/errorrep/userdumps, plus a dumprep***something.pf
file in windows\prefetch directory with date/times of around the crash
time.
I have Trend Micro security sw with all protection enabled and I very
much doubt if this is a virus.
Any ideas what I can do about this or where my C drive space is going?
The virtual mem file pagefile.sys is currently around 800 MB and it's
"last modified" date/time is around the time of the latest crash.
Does this file go up and down in size by large amounts?
Thanks for any ideas.
akiwi
Using Win XP SP2 with all updates.
A few weeks ago I started getting some svchost related problems.
Sometimes I get an "attempt to read address ......" error message
reported. Sometimes I get a system "lockup" where my hard drive
becomes continuously busy and the system runs very slowly. After a
while, low C drive space is reported. Task manager won't run and
attempting to restart takes a long time (several minutes) for the
restart to happen (if it happens at all), - upon restart/reboot the
"lockup" resumes with the hard drive continuously busy and C drive
space falling. Somehow the process eventually stops if I let it run
but I'm left with several hundred MB of less C drive space than I had
before.
With the latest occurrence of this, after the system became usable
again, I found two svchost crash dump files (of zero size) in
windows/pchealth/errorrep/userdumps, plus a dumprep***something.pf
file in windows\prefetch directory with date/times of around the crash
time.
I have Trend Micro security sw with all protection enabled and I very
much doubt if this is a virus.
Any ideas what I can do about this or where my C drive space is going?
The virtual mem file pagefile.sys is currently around 800 MB and it's
"last modified" date/time is around the time of the latest crash.
Does this file go up and down in size by large amounts?
Thanks for any ideas.
akiwi