Funny thing with CPU and IE6

[no one]

Running XP Home SP3


Noticed on Saturday that my PS was making a lot of Noise, turned out my CPU Fan was running flat
out, and the CPU was getting a bit Hot 64c..

Checked with the task manager and noticed that the CPU was running 50%, but I had only one dnload
running, confirmed with the task manager only one IE 6 running and is using 50% of the CPU, also in
the Firewall only showed the IE 6 that was getting data, virus program disabled at that time.

I have never seen this before, and no Viruses were shown and some minor Spamware that I removed with
Ad-Aware..

After a reboot yesterday, had no problems, and none so far today.


So did the Winsock get its knickers in a twist.?

 

[nass]

Running XP Home SP3


Noticed on Saturday that my PS was making a lot of Noise, turned out my CPU Fan was running flat
out, and the CPU was getting a bit Hot 64c..

Checked with the task manager and noticed that the CPU was running 50%, but I had only one dnload
running, confirmed with the task manager only one IE 6 running and is using 50% of the CPU, also in
the Firewall only showed the IE 6 that was getting data, virus program disabled at that time.

I have never seen this before, and no Viruses were shown and some minor Spamware that I removed with
Ad-Aware..

After a reboot yesterday, had no problems, and none so far today.


So did the Winsock get its knickers in a twist.?

It could be, but your issue it seems an Overheated system issue, did you
tried to see if the CPU fans running Okay to cool down the Temperature of
your system?.

Hence you said a Reboot cure the issue, it likely a Heat issue not winscok,
unless you did encounter an Internet Connection scenario, did you?.
Sometimes replacing the thermal component for the CPU can heal the
Overheating issue before the CPU totally get into smoke!.

How it the power supply, is it okay?.
Try this:
netsh winsock reset click [OK]
Reboot your machine.
HTH.
nass

 

[philo]

Running XP Home SP3


Noticed on Saturday that my PS was making a lot of Noise, turned out my CPU Fan was running flat
out, and the CPU was getting a bit Hot 64c..

Checked with the task manager and noticed that the CPU was running 50%, but I had only one dnload
running, confirmed with the task manager only one IE 6 running and is using 50% of the CPU, also in
the Firewall only showed the IE 6 that was getting data, virus program disabled at that time.

I have never seen this before, and no Viruses were shown and some minor Spamware that I removed with
Ad-Aware..

After a reboot yesterday, had no problems, and none so far today.


So did the Winsock get its knickers in a twist.?

Don't know why your machine was running with 50% cpu usage...but that should
definately NOT have caused overheating.

When I am performing some major tasks...I have had my cpu running near 100%
and not gotten it overheated...even after long periods of use.

Perhaps your cpu cooler is undersized?

 

[RalfG]

Something in the web pages you visited, or related to the download, affected
the CPU usage... a memory leak, program loop, something along those lines.
How long was this going on for, minutes or hours? With constantly high CPU
usage over several hours you would expect heat build up so it would't be
much of a concern. If OTOH the heat build up was fairly rapid suspect a CPU
cooling problem. Dust build up on the CPU fan and heatsink would be the
obvious first thing to look for.

 

[no one]

Running XP Home SP3


Noticed on Saturday that my PS was making a lot of Noise, turned out my CPU Fan was running flat
out, and the CPU was getting a bit Hot 64c..

Checked with the task manager and noticed that the CPU was running 50%, but I had only one dnload
running, confirmed with the task manager only one IE 6 running and is using 50% of the CPU, also in
the Firewall only showed the IE 6 that was getting data, virus program disabled at that time.

I have never seen this before, and no Viruses were shown and some minor Spamware that I removed with
Ad-Aware..

After a reboot yesterday, had no problems, and none so far today.


So did the Winsock get its knickers in a twist.?

It could be, but your issue it seems an Overheated system issue, did you
tried to see if the CPU fans running Okay to cool down the Temperature of
your system?.

Hence you said a Reboot cure the issue, it likely a Heat issue not winscok,
unless you did encounter an Internet Connection scenario, did you?.
Sometimes replacing the thermal component for the CPU can heal the
Overheating issue before the CPU totally get into smoke!.

How it the power supply, is it okay?.
Try this:
netsh winsock reset click [OK]
Reboot your machine.
HTH.
nass

The CPU as it was running at 50% Load, what was causing that..?

 

[no one]

Don't know why your machine was running with 50% cpu usage...but that should
definately NOT have caused overheating.

When I am performing some major tasks...I have had my cpu running near 100%
and not gotten it overheated...even after long periods of use.

Perhaps your cpu cooler is undersized?

Stock P4 Cooler, and its always run hot, even after refitting and applying new paste.

 

[no one]

Something in the web pages you visited, or related to the download, affected
the CPU usage... a memory leak, program loop, something along those lines.
How long was this going on for, minutes or hours? With constantly high CPU
usage over several hours you would expect heat build up so it would't be
much of a concern. If OTOH the heat build up was fairly rapid suspect a CPU
cooling problem. Dust build up on the CPU fan and heatsink would be the
obvious first thing to look for.

I recently cleaned up the system and with new general paste, but the P4c 3.2ghz has always run Hot,
I have 4 case fans to help with cooling.

The problem was going on for a few hours from memory, CPU uses the stock Fan..

 

[philo]

Stock P4 Cooler, and its always run hot, even after refitting and applying new paste.

May want to get something better...
maybe a larger heatsink with a bigger fan

 

[no one]

May want to get something better...
maybe a larger heatsink with a bigger fan

I still have this one Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu was fitted to a 2.8Ghz P4, but I did not trust it on
the 3.2Ghz P4..

The 2.8ghz only used a Aluminum heat sink so the Zalman was a lot better, the 3.2 Ghz uses AlCu
heat sink.

Mind you the thermal past the Intel used look like badly ground Aluminum with lumps in it, I nearly
damaged my CPU as it stuck to it hard and the socket was locked, managed to straiten the pins a
little as they break very easily, Hard brass.


I only had plain thermal paste and my local shop does not stock any good stuff at all, will have to
mail order.