Bad Motherboard?

[MarkG]

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it hard
to control. While this is happening, whatever I am working with slows down to
less than a crawl. When I try to close the application, ie IE7, it takes many
minutes for the action to take place, Also while this is going on the lights
on my card readers E thru H blink on and off. This condition will eventualy
go away if I wait long enuf. I cant pinpoint a common point when this all
happens. So far it occurrs when I try to view a video clip on Youtube or
similar site and when I empty the recycle bin. Here is what I am working
with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.

 

[JS]

It may be a very specific process or application that's taking all
the CPU resources and slowing down your PC.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU %,
once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and System/Services may need to be expanded
to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

Still another tool is What's Running
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

JS

 

[MarkG]

Thanks for the reply. Before I do what you suggest I checked windows Task
Manager while the condition was occuring and found that iexplore.exe appeared
to be making my CPU usage go to 100%. I am not as computer literate as I
should be. Is this causing my problems and what should I do?

MarkG

It may be a very specific process or application that's taking all
the CPU resources and slowing down your PC.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU %,
once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and System/Services may need to be expanded
to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

Still another tool is What's Running
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

JS

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it

[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]

with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.

 

[JS]

I searched the web and found several hit that implied the problem was
related to IE7's 'Developer Toolbar' or the toolbar's BHO.
See: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1584791&SiteID=1
The apparent fix is to disable it.

JS

Thanks for the reply. Before I do what you suggest I checked windows Task
Manager while the condition was occuring and found that iexplore.exe
appeared
to be making my CPU usage go to 100%. I am not as computer literate as I
should be. Is this causing my problems and what should I do?

MarkG

It may be a very specific process or application that's taking all
the CPU resources and slowing down your PC.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU %,
once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and System/Services may need to be
expanded
to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

Still another tool is What's Running
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

JS

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around
the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it

[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]

with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.

 

[Unknown]

I think you have a virus.

 

[MarkG via WindowsKB.com]

Thanks for the reply. I now have two program that use 100% CPU. explore.exe
and iexplorer.exe.
I could not find Developer Toolbar. I googled both and got some references
but they did not seem to help.

MarkG

I searched the web and found several hit that implied the problem was
related to IE7's 'Developer Toolbar' or the toolbar's BHO.
See: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1584791&SiteID=1
The apparent fix is to disable it.

JS

Thanks for the reply. Before I do what you suggest I checked windows Task
Manager while the condition was occuring and found that iexplore.exe

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[MarkG via WindowsKB.com]

Could be but I have checked all I can and nothing shows up. Anyone have any
suggestions?

MarkG

I think you have a virus.

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it

[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]

with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.

 

[JS]

Explorer has a number of processes that run under it, use Process Explorer
to isolate which process is the culprit.

JS

Thanks for the reply. I now have two program that use 100% CPU.
explore.exe
and iexplorer.exe.
I could not find Developer Toolbar. I googled both and got some
references
but they did not seem to help.

MarkG

I searched the web and found several hit that implied the problem was
related to IE7's 'Developer Toolbar' or the toolbar's BHO.
See:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1584791&SiteID=1
The apparent fix is to disable it.

JS

Thanks for the reply. Before I do what you suggest I checked windows
Task
Manager while the condition was occuring and found that iexplore.exe

[quoted text clipped - 37 lines]

with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware
and
virus clean, all MS updates.

 

[Guest]

It would not hurt to do a full scan with SpybotS&D or AdAware.
Have you checked in the XP Error reports?
Do you have "onclose scan" checked in you AV program? If so? Uncheck it.
Do you have anything like a text program set to auto save?
I would stop any file sharing if you have any enabled.
Do a complete AV scan with "show all files" checked and "Hide file
extensions" unchecked in Folder Options/View.
Won't hurt to open properties of the OS drive and do a Disk Cleanup.
A thorough Scan Disk will show any HD problems.- Second option on the scan
disk window.
Hope this helps?

Could be but I have checked all I can and nothing shows up. Anyone have any
suggestions?

MarkG

I think you have a virus.

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it

[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]

with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.