update.exe taking 99% of cpu (win update?)

[Glenn - A&M]

I've been having this prob on this pc for about 3 months now.

Once every few days update;exe takes in 99% of the CPU load, and it stays
like that. Sometimes, if I lower it's priority, and put the priority of a WU
update higher, it completes the update - and sometimes it doesn't.
It mostly hangs a t WindowsMedia-Q8 (Kuweit?).

This is a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of 333Mhz Ram, on a Gigabyte GA8s648FX.

It has a "TerraTec EWX 64/96" waveplay soundcard, a "Adaptec SCSI" adapter,
2 "PlexWriter SCSI writers", a "DVD writer", 2 "Maxtor DiamondMax 9" HDD
(pATA), an "ATI Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE" display card.

Running Win2K 5.00.2195 with SP4.

In an Active Directory (domain).

Mainly used as a power workstation.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated, I really want to get rid of this
problem for once and for all!

Glenn.

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: "Glenn - A&M" <[email protected]>
Subject: update.exe taking 99% of cpu (win update?)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:47:45 +0200

I've been having this prob on this pc for about 3 months now.

Once every few days update;exe takes in 99% of the CPU load, and it stays
like that. Sometimes, if I lower it's priority, and put the priority of a WU
update higher, it completes the update - and sometimes it doesn't.
It mostly hangs a t WindowsMedia-Q8 (Kuweit?).

This is a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of 333Mhz Ram, on a Gigabyte GA8s648FX.

It has a "TerraTec EWX 64/96" waveplay soundcard, a "Adaptec SCSI" adapter,
2 "PlexWriter SCSI writers", a "DVD writer", 2 "Maxtor DiamondMax 9" HDD
(pATA), an "ATI Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE" display card.

Running Win2K 5.00.2195 with SP4.

In an Active Directory (domain).

Mainly used as a power workstation.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated, I really want to get rid of this
problem for once and for all!

Glenn.

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See if this article applies to your situation:
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[Glenn - A&M]

I've just had an idea:

I noticed some WU files on a drive (D:\c800c8da8550a5f68f\), with a
"spuninst.exe" (service pack uninstall?).

But, in this computer, the D drive is a drive that's attached, removed and
replaced about 6 times / day (to upload data to the disks).

So, I wonder if it's possible that WU downloaded some files, stored them om
the disk that was removed, and cannot continue because it can't find it's
data?

Glenn

 

[Glenn - A&M]

I've been having this prob on this pc for about 3 months now.

Once every few days update;exe takes in 99% of the CPU load, and it stays
like that. Sometimes, if I lower it's priority, and put the priority of a WU
update higher, it completes the update - and sometimes it doesn't.
It mostly hangs a t WindowsMedia-Q8 (Kuweit?).

This is a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of 333Mhz Ram, on a Gigabyte GA8s648FX.

It has a "TerraTec EWX 64/96" waveplay soundcard, a "Adaptec SCSI" adapter,
2 "PlexWriter SCSI writers", a "DVD writer", 2 "Maxtor DiamondMax 9" HDD
(pATA), an "ATI Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE" display card.

Running Win2K 5.00.2195 with SP4.

In an Active Directory (domain).

Mainly used as a power workstation.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated, I really want to get rid of this
problem for once and for all!

Glenn.

 

[Glenn - A&M]

Still no one an idea? Where can I report this problem? What can I do?

Reinstall Win2k and all our soft for this stupid update.exe...

The file is a 'Windows Service Pack Setup', located in
"C:\a22bb94ee488216ced4754e51a349431\i386\update".