Win2K CPU usage problem

[unfguy]

I recently ran into this problem:

On occasion, my CPU utilization will hit 100% and stay that way for a random amount of time (2 or so minutes average...maybe more) Task manager shows svchost.exe, services.exe, and if I recall correctly, system taking around 30-50% CPU each-- the amount alternates/varies rapidly.

I reloaded my PC (format, reinstall) and the condition is still present. As far as a basic system- I am running Win2K (SP2), and IE5.5 (SP1). The last time this occured was once I launched IE after a cold boot. No other apps had been run. I upgraded to IE5.5 because the problem was very persistant under IE5.x

?? Any ideas (besides changing operating systems...hmm, maybe I should go back to BeOS) ??

[Surrea1]

What's the speed of your processor? And what type? All those services you just mentioned are using 00 on mine, and may jump up to 8 or so, after a little while.

And by the way, I'm running a 1 gig Athlon Thunder Bird

[This message has been edited by Surrea1 (edited 07-25-2001).]

[Cody]

I never have them jump up more than 4 percent. I am using a PIII Coppermine 800EB w/ 512MB PC133 RAM...

I wonder... Do you run distributed.net or SETI@home programs?

[unfguy]

I'm running a Duron @ 933MHz w/512 meg RAM on an Abit KT7a-RAID. There is nothing other than the standard system "stuff" running. The peaks seem to occur at random. I will try to generate the occurance again and see what happens...

[unfguy]

I was able to generate the 100% usage again. I installed WP10 trial edition and any time I launch it, those 3 items listed in my first post peak the system. During this time WP is not usable. It cleared up after about a minute. The system was usable during that time. Everything is functional now.

[patrickp]

I've had a similar thing today.
outlook was downloading a big file and i cancelled it.
it didn't let me cancel it so i pressed alt-f4 to quit the program.
but still saw the traffic on the connectionicon.
started taskmanager to see if outlook is still running but wasn't. on the performance tab i noticed a 100% cpu usage.
I didn't know how to solve this, just restarted ( oh well win2k) don't like restarting.
one more thing, running winamp and some visualization avi drives my cpu usage up to
95%
why is that?
I have a P3 800 EB and 256 mb ram.
leaves me clueless.
pat

[The Highlander]

Try Changing the MPS control version in the bios from 1.4 to 1.1 or vice versa. I had an old atc-6260 board that had that problem... And I did that and it solved many of my problems... also a bios update or check the acpi function. Those things tend to tangle the dual cpu

goto 2cpu (http://www.2cpu.com)