SP2 yields 100% CPU Utilization

[Guest]

Searched everywhere and I've seen people complaining, but
no solution.

I installed SP2 on Thursday. Left the computer running
overnight and hopped back on in the morning. CPU was
pegged at 100%. The process was msmsgs.exe. At first I
thought I had gotten hijacked somehow, even though my
system was totally fine before the SP2 install. So I
went through the process of checking out the entire
system. I'm still totally clean.

So I started experimenting. If I kill the msmsgs.exe
process and leave an iexplore.exe process running, within
minutes the iexplorer.exe process will start taking
100%. If I kill the iexplorer.exe, then the explorer.exe
will take 100% and there's no recovering from that
point. This was entirely repeatable.

This is with an Athlon 2600XP system running an Asus
A7N8E-Deluxe and all the latest drivers. Also using an
NEC2510 DVD burner, Maxtor 200GB SATA, Western Digital
160GB UATA133, Maxtor 200GB UATA133, GeForce 6800GT,
Conexant V92 Soft modem (HSF). I'm running Norton
SystemWorks 2004 with Norton Personal Firewall 2003. I
realize that SP2 isn't really necessary with a secured
PC, but I'm a hardware developer and have to have this
system up to date.

BTW, after the SP2 installation, it had problems with the
Athlon XP2600+ CPU driver. Actually said it couldn't be
initialized. Finally took a driver update and that was
OK. The modem had the same problem.

After uninstalling SP2, the system is back to normal and
the problem is gone. So I'm forced to believe that SP2
was the problem. I have not seen anything in the
knowledge base that addresses the problem. Does anybody
else have the problem? Has anybody solved it? Possibly
another developer? I'm going to bust out with a debugger
soon.

 

[Guest]

This may help you to avoid problems in the future:
How to successfully install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm

Additionally, you may want to “kill the messengerâ€. In SP2 it should be easy
– just uninstall via Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.

SystemWorks 2004 installs many useless background processes that could
probably be disabled using Preferences/Options.

Here is more on Symantec products and SP2:
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/sp2/faq.html

SP2 has its own firewall, which is enabled by default. Running two firewalls
is not recommended and may lead to unpredictable results.

Hope this helps!
---
How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
http://www.fixyourwindows.com

Spyware/Virus Removal and Prevention:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm
(Links to online virus scans on the same page)

 

[a|n]

-----Original Message-----
Searched everywhere and I've seen people complaining, but
no solution.

I installed SP2

After uninstalling SP2, the system is back to normal and
the problem is gone. So I'm forced to believe that SP2
was the problem.

Here the same thing on my Gerocom laptop. I read an
article where Dell inspiron had also this problem. I
don't know a solution at this time?

 

[Guest]

Hey, I've seen the same thing on mine, now SP2 is OFF for now:

I installed SP2 on Thursday. Left the computer running
overnight and hopped back on in the morning. CPU was
pegged at 100%.

Mine didn't occur in the same fashion as yours. I had the problem develop
after using the Add/Remove Windows Components utility. Once I've initialized
the program, and even if I don't do anything else but Cancel, then just
afterward my TCPSVCS.EXE (Simple TCP/IP Service) will peg at ~98% CPU
utilization. As if that weren't enough, should I decide to Remove / Reinstall
MSN Explorer, then during the reinstallation I am asked for the SP2 CD-ROM.
I'm installing from the MS provided d/l'd executable file, no CD-ROM here, so
the process ends unsuccessfully. What a bug!

Also, there has never been a way for me to return to the original operation
of my system just before hand and I end up having to drop back an image file
backup (and even then I have trouble with some of these in that my CPU
utilization hovers between 1% and 2% but never drops to 0% as before) and
hope for the best.

This has occurred on my SP1 system, too, if I have the anti-virus program
NOD32 running, or even just installed. Eset is trying to understand what the
problem is and is working on a solution even now.

After uninstalling SP2, the system is back to normal and
the problem is gone. So I'm forced to believe that SP2
was the problem. I have not seen anything in the
knowledge base that addresses the problem. Does anybody
else have the problem? Has anybody solved it? Possibly
another developer? I'm going to bust out with a debugger
soon.

Please, if you come back to read my reply, post here again with any of you
successes regarding this. Thanks.

 

[Mark]

-----Original Message-----
Hey, I've seen the same thing on mine, now SP2 is OFF for now:

Mine didn't occur in the same fashion as yours. I had the problem develop
after using the Add/Remove Windows Components utility. Once I've initialized
the program, and even if I don't do anything else but Cancel, then just
afterward my TCPSVCS.EXE (Simple TCP/IP Service) will peg at ~98% CPU
utilization. As if that weren't enough, should I decide to Remove / Reinstall
MSN Explorer, then during the reinstallation I am asked for the SP2 CD-ROM.
I'm installing from the MS provided d/l'd executable file, no CD-ROM here, so
the process ends unsuccessfully. What a bug!

Also, there has never been a way for me to return to the original operation
of my system just before hand and I end up having to drop back an image file
backup (and even then I have trouble with some of these in that my CPU
utilization hovers between 1% and 2% but never drops to 0% as before) and
hope for the best.

This has occurred on my SP1 system, too, if I have the anti-virus program
NOD32 running, or even just installed. Eset is trying to understand what the
problem is and is working on a solution even now.


Please, if you come back to read my reply, post here again with any of you
successes regarding this. Thanks.
.

The same thing is happening on my PC with MS windows XP
service pack 2.

Sorry I don't know the answer.

I just do ctrl alt del, and end the task.

It doesn't seem to have any ill effects.

Hope someone at Microsoft reads this and figures out an
answer.

I'm sure there are lots of corporate desktops with cpu's
overload, and people tearing their hair out!