SP2 causes 100% CPU usage on my AMD K6 2/450 Notebook

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System: AMD K6 2/450 processor, 256 meg ram.

I have searched this group for an answer, so as to not re-ask the same
question, but was unable to find anything that was related to this problem.
I did the Automatic Update bit and things appeared to go well, but on
re-boot the system was operating slower than a snails pace. My startup items
would take forever to load, and likewise for opening any application or
explorer window. Ctrl+Alt+Del would bring up Task Manager eventually, and
the CPU use was pegged at 100%. Sorting on the CPU column in the Processes
tab so that it was in descending order showed that taskmgr.exe was taking
the biggest percentage CPU use. Also, at a point in time things would get so
slow that the entire system would freeze and I would have to shut it down
with the power button. I finally tried to remove SP2, not sure exactly what
I did but I trashed XP necessitating a re-install of XP SP1. Once that was
accomplished and all of my security apps were reinstalled I proceeded to
re-install all of the updates, ending with a re-install of SP2. Which
confirmed that it was indeed something in SP2 causing this high CPU usage,
as the above described behavior returned. However this time I was able to
uninstall SP2 and all is well and back to normal, system response and CPU
usage wise.

I am open to any suggestions as to what I can do to install SP2 and have it
run properly. Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.
 
Disciple schreef:

Try a bios flash it worked for me, and inux didn had any probs afetr that.
 
Hi,
That is pretty much what I have too, I took it to an
erlier system restore point and its fine now.
I have a dell 1150 notebook. I also want to trash the sp2
update but fear for the rest of the dell.
I will follow this post with interest.

Muck
 
Familie said:
Disciple schreef:

Try a bios flash it worked for me, and inux didn had any probs afetr
that.
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Sure you didn't mean to post this to comp.os.linux.misc? Or the
ever-popular cesspool that is C.O.L.A?

Malke
 
mucky said:
Hi,
That is pretty much what I have too, I took it to an
erlier system restore point and its fine now.
I have a dell 1150 notebook. I also want to trash the sp2
update but fear for the rest of the dell.
I will follow this post with interest.

Muck
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I'm having the same problems with my Dell 1150 notebook. I just tried
flashing the bios and updating the intel graphics and chipset drivers,
but the performance is still in the pits... Seems like the CPU load
stays at 100% much to often. Epsecially with IE open. I guess I'll
re-roll it with SP1...
 
Charles said:
I'm having the same problems with my Dell 1150 notebook. I just tried
flashing the bios and updating the intel graphics and chipset drivers,
but the performance is still in the pits... Seems like the CPU load
stays at 100% much to often. Epsecially with IE open. I guess I'll
re-roll it with SP1...
Click to expand...

Dell Inspiron 1150 and 2650 slowdown:

Machines with Celeron processors may slow down dramatically after SP2.
An apparent fix, posted by someone at a Dell forum, was to roll back
the processor driver.

From the Control Panel System applet, select Hardware and then Device
Manager. Open the processor section and double-click on the processor.
Then click on the driver tab, and "roll back driver". Follow the
prompts.

What happened is that SP2 installed a new driver called intelppm.sys
that seems to have a problem. This process restored a driver called
processr.sys that was previously installed. This seems to only affect
those laptops with Celeron processors.

Malke
 
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