99% CPU usage by random processes

[smirkinchicken]

Occasionally, my computer will slow to a crawl, someimes to the point
of requiring a power off to even just reboot.

At first, I thought it was a problem with Norton anti-virusm so I
uninstalled that and installed McAfee.

That didn't solve the problem, it just migrated to explorer.exe taking
up 99% CPU, or an HP rint monitor taking up 99% of the CPU. These are
the only 2 I remember for certain, but I think that there have been
others as well.

Mind you, it is not all the time, but it is mutiple times per day. For
instance, I have had to power off the computer twice so far today.

Computer:

DFI Lanparty nForce3 motherboard
Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
dual 512mb pc 3200 mmory sticks
nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB video card
120GB SATA western digital HD (40GB partition for Windows, the rest for
important applications)
160GB Western Digital HDD (2 of them)

I have run Ad-Aware and Spybot, as well as Norton AV and McAfee AV,
nothing was found with ny of the above.

 

[Guest]

To troubleshoot that problem,read and run kb310560

 

[Guest]

(e-mail address removed),
try this link:
www.geocities.com/genious_2k1/xp-tips.html

yogi

 

[Rock]

Occasionally, my computer will slow to a crawl, someimes to the point
of requiring a power off to even just reboot.

At first, I thought it was a problem with Norton anti-virusm so I
uninstalled that and installed McAfee.

That didn't solve the problem, it just migrated to explorer.exe taking
up 99% CPU, or an HP rint monitor taking up 99% of the CPU. These are
the only 2 I remember for certain, but I think that there have been
others as well.

Mind you, it is not all the time, but it is mutiple times per day. For
instance, I have had to power off the computer twice so far today.

Computer:

DFI Lanparty nForce3 motherboard
Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
dual 512mb pc 3200 mmory sticks
nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB video card
120GB SATA western digital HD (40GB partition for Windows, the rest for
important applications)
160GB Western Digital HDD (2 of them)

I have run Ad-Aware and Spybot, as well as Norton AV and McAfee AV,
nothing was found with ny of the above.

For one thing going from Norton to McAfee isn't much of an improvement.
I would suggest you avoid both.

Have you done all malware checks in safe mode? Did you disable the HP
print monitor? Much of the software for HP printers are troublesome and
not needed.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

From Norton to Mcafee. Gee, from one disaster to another.

I suggest AVG from http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

You might be infested with malware.
What You Should Know About Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx

So How Did I Get Infected Anyway?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971

Help with Hijackware
All MS - MVP Sites.
(http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm)
(http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm)
(http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm)
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html)
(http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm)

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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