Explorer.exe executes every 2 seconds and locks the system

[Richard Smith]

Hello you'll

I've trying to install Windows XP Professional in my
system for a while. The problem is that every few seconds
the system freezes for a fraction of a second. This goes
on and on.

This "freezing" is enough to get very irritating. Even the
mouse "stutters" during that freeze time. You cannot even
listen to a simple wav playing, because it sttuters.

The task manager lists nothing that is weird. Except that
everytime the system freezes, the process Explorer.exe
get's some CPU and then releases it.

In the performance monitor I could see that there is
a "Interrupt time" that behaves like the Processor time (
20% of the CPU) at the moments the system freezes.

My conclusion is that it seems to be some driver that is
taking too much time to service some interrupt. I've tried
to run tracertp to identify the process, but it comes out
as "segment". Is there a way of "seeing" which is this
interrupt or driver?

I've installed the latest drivers from ATI, Creative Labs,
VIA and HightPoint. I've also flashed the BIOS to the
latest version. I can see no light. Can anybody out there
help?

I had Windows98SE before and it worked very well, whitout
those glitches. I've also installed Linux and I saw that
there is no sign of any glicthes, either. So, it doesn't
seem to be a hw malfunction.

My setup is:
- ABIT KG7-RAID motherboard
- AMD Athlon 1400
- 768MB of PC2600 DDR RAM from Micron
- Two Seagate 80GB 7200rpm IDE HD connected to the master
ports of IDE 2 e IDE 3 (Highpoint HPT370 raid controller)
The HDs are seen as one 160GB by the system. They run as
RAID-0 configuration.
- One LG CD Writer connected as master to the IDE 1
- One Seagete 7200rpm 120GB HD pluged to the IDE 0
- One Create Labs Audigy sound card
- One ATI Radeon VIVO (Radeon 7200) AGP video card with
64MB
- One Realtek PCI 10/100mbits Ethernet card

Windows XP with SP1 and all updates.

 

[Guest]

Hello you'll

I've trying to install Windows XP Professional in my
system for a while. The problem is that every few seconds
the system freezes for a fraction of a second. This goes
on and on.

This "freezing" is enough to get very irritating. Even the
mouse "stutters" during that freeze time. You cannot even
listen to a simple wav playing, because it sttuters.

The task manager lists nothing that is weird. Except that
everytime the system freezes, the process Explorer.exe
get's some CPU and then releases it.

In the performance monitor I could see that there is
a "Interrupt time" that behaves like the Processor time (
20% of the CPU) at the moments the system freezes.

My conclusion is that it seems to be some driver that is
taking too much time to service some interrupt. I've tried
to run tracertp to identify the process, but it comes out
as "segment". Is there a way of "seeing" which is this
interrupt or driver?

I've installed the latest drivers from ATI, Creative Labs,
VIA and HightPoint. I've also flashed the BIOS to the
latest version. I can see no light. Can anybody out there
help?

I had Windows98SE before and it worked very well, whitout
those glitches. I've also installed Linux and I saw that
there is no sign of any glicthes, either. So, it doesn't
seem to be a hw malfunction.

My setup is:
- ABIT KG7-RAID motherboard
- AMD Athlon 1400
- 768MB of PC2600 DDR RAM from Micron
- Two Seagate 80GB 7200rpm IDE HD connected to the master
ports of IDE 2 e IDE 3 (Highpoint HPT370 raid controller)
The HDs are seen as one 160GB by the system. They run as
RAID-0 configuration.
- One LG CD Writer connected as master to the IDE 1
- One Seagete 7200rpm 120GB HD pluged to the IDE 0
- One Create Labs Audigy sound card
- One ATI Radeon VIVO (Radeon 7200) AGP video card with
64MB
- One Realtek PCI 10/100mbits Ethernet card

Windows XP with SP1 and all updates.

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread26131-1.html
http://cexx.org/dlder.htm

 

[Guest]

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http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread26131-1.html
http://cexx.org/dlder.htm

Hello MAP

I've just finished running antivirus (AVG and ClamWin) and spyware (adware
and spybot) verification. I've manualy

verified that I don't have the dlder virus in my system. In fact, I'm not
even suprised, since I've been trying to

install and configure XP and I haven't had time to surf the net or do
anything else.

Actually, the synthoms I observe in my system are different than those
listed there. While many people report that

Explorer.exe gets more than 90% of CPU, after some time, in my system it is
always the same behavior. Every few

seconds, Explorer.exe gets some CPU (Taskmanager show only 2-3%) for almost
one second and then releases it. This

cycle happens since boot time. Everything that is running in the foreground
when this happens freezes for almost

half a second (ie a sound playing, a menu opening, a window moving, the
mouse pointer travelling).
The process monitor shows that at these times, the CPU has 20% peek
processing time and also there is an interrupt

process time of 20% at peek. The form of the graph is a thin triangle.

Does anybody know how in the world I can locate what process, DLL or driver
that is doing that? Is it possible to

monitor what IRQs are firing at those moments?

Yesterday I was desperate. I launched system monitor and task manager. Then
I started to kill every process in an

order that I thought was of "decreasing importance". Suddenlly, when I
killed of the svchost processes the system

monitor stopped showing those nasty triangles every few seconds. However, a
few moments later, the system showed a

dialog box, sating that the system had to be rebooted because some process
had suddenly stoped. Those 40 seconds or

so were the only time that my system behaved without the hipcups!

I wonder if the SVCHOST that I killed was indeed causing trouble or if it
was so vital that the monitor didn't work

anymore at that time.

Please, is there anything I could do to determine what process, driver or
piece of hardware is causing all this?

Again, Windows98SE worked without a glitch and so does Linux in another
partition. Do I have to downgrade back to

Win98SE and lose NTFS?

Thanks in advance for any help,

RS

 

[Guest]

HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPP

Does anybody know, at leastm how to find out what process is executing at
those intervals or at least, wht process is servicing which interrupts?

Thanks,

RS