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Travis King
Just installed XP (with SP2) on a 400MHz AMD K6 Compaq 5340 for someone last
night. (It had XP on it a few years ago when my grandma had it, and it
worked okay then but a little slow. My grandma got rid of it and someone I
know still has a computer with Windows 95 and a 100MHz processor, so I told
her she could use this Compaq as I know it's run XP before.) It was running
pretty good until this morning when I turned it on. I added a network card
this morning, and it has been slow ever since. After the computer has been
on for a few minutes and everything has loaded, svchost.exe will eat 100% of
the CPU and is very relentless and won't quit. It will eat 100% of the CPU
endlessly. Task manager and most programs will not open at all when this
happens. About the only thing that seems to work is the explorer, but it
works extremely slow. The only way I knew it was svchost that was eating
100% of the CPU usage was I opened task manager before it began eating the
CPU up. Any ideas to why this svchost is doing that? It is only one
svchost that's doing this, the several other svchost's are at 0% usage. The
Compaq's got 220MB of RAM and a 4.3GB hard drive that's still over half
free. If I 'end task' to this svchost, the computer will begin to behave a
little strangely and some but not all of Luna will disappear. The taskbar
will look like the classic, but the rest is Luna, including open windows. I
have not activated XP yet as I want to make sure everything is in place
before doing so. Help... Please... Please...
Software installed (not very much):
Avast! Antivirus 4.7
Microsft Office 2000 Small Business (Installed Word & Excel only)
Lavasoft AdAware SE Personal
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 (as version 6 & 7 are very slow, so I wouldn't dare
put it on this computer.)
night. (It had XP on it a few years ago when my grandma had it, and it
worked okay then but a little slow. My grandma got rid of it and someone I
know still has a computer with Windows 95 and a 100MHz processor, so I told
her she could use this Compaq as I know it's run XP before.) It was running
pretty good until this morning when I turned it on. I added a network card
this morning, and it has been slow ever since. After the computer has been
on for a few minutes and everything has loaded, svchost.exe will eat 100% of
the CPU and is very relentless and won't quit. It will eat 100% of the CPU
endlessly. Task manager and most programs will not open at all when this
happens. About the only thing that seems to work is the explorer, but it
works extremely slow. The only way I knew it was svchost that was eating
100% of the CPU usage was I opened task manager before it began eating the
CPU up. Any ideas to why this svchost is doing that? It is only one
svchost that's doing this, the several other svchost's are at 0% usage. The
Compaq's got 220MB of RAM and a 4.3GB hard drive that's still over half
free. If I 'end task' to this svchost, the computer will begin to behave a
little strangely and some but not all of Luna will disappear. The taskbar
will look like the classic, but the rest is Luna, including open windows. I
have not activated XP yet as I want to make sure everything is in place
before doing so. Help... Please... Please...
Software installed (not very much):
Avast! Antivirus 4.7
Microsft Office 2000 Small Business (Installed Word & Excel only)
Lavasoft AdAware SE Personal
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 (as version 6 & 7 are very slow, so I wouldn't dare
put it on this computer.)