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hfxmike · 03-26-2008, 04:54 PM

i'm running win xp with 2 gb ram, amd 4200 dual.

i've had this problem on previous windows installs and it's unpredictable.

I'm working away and all of a sudden a program will stall or there is a noticeable slowdown. I open task manager to see that the process "System" is taking 50% of my cpu. Under performance, I see that it has grabbed 100% of one core. http://picasaweb.google.com/scootr/Xp

I can usually exit out of a few programs, but eventually the screen freezes and I have to do a hard reboot. I've scanned my computer with about every freeware tool and i have realtime protection. (I never get alerts with this process chokes my system).

ps - "System" it can't be killed either

help!
mike

treid · 03-26-2008, 07:03 PM

doing a little bit of research i found that this is most likely a driver issue. Unplug all your usb components and restart to see if that resolves your problem. If so plug them in one at a time to see whats causing the issue. It could also be a problem with a pci driver but not as likely as buggy usb driver. Hope that helps.

Tony

dragon6790 · 03-27-2008, 04:38 AM

Quick question, do you have the Driver for your CPU installed? AMD Dual-Core Optimizer is what you may need.
Here's a link: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._13118,00.html
Hope this helps.
RD

hfxmike · 03-28-2008, 11:09 AM

Thanks for the advice. I don't think it's a usb problem - the only thing i have plugged in at the moment is my mouse. I just installed the dual core optimizer - and I've got Process Explorer running so next time "System" tries to lock up my system I'll be able to get more info.

caperatlarge · 03-28-2008, 07:21 PM

let us know how it works .......t/y

Willy_Weed · 03-29-2008, 11:56 AM

Run Hijackthis and post the LOG file

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/p...php#hijackthis