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I am hoping that someone here will be able to point me in a good
direction to solve a problem I am having with my HP Omnibook 500
running Win2000. Three weeks ago, my machine began performing
eratically and stuttering with the mouse motion and keyboard entry. I
noticed that the CPU usage was jumping to 100% in a rythmic fashion
every three seconds seconds or so.
When I look at windows Task Manager the "system" process seems to be
the culprit, taking up to 99% of the CPU. The graphic on the task
manager looks like an EKG reading.
It usually takes about 2 hours for this to get to the point that I
have to reboot the machine. In other words this slowly seems to build
up taking more and more CPU until it locks everything up. Always in
this rythmic frequency. If I reboot, it goes aways and slowly begins
building back up again over the next two hours. It seems to not matter
which or how many program I have running.
I have done the following:
Cleaned my hard disk up and defragmented
Upgraded to Service Pack 4
Run Adaware and Spybot
Done a virus scan on the machine manually (the system has Norton
Antivirus Corp edition that runs weekly)
Deleted any running programs that I do not recognize or need
Run perfmon and identified one thread that seems to be aligned with
the CPU usage, but do not know how to identify what this thread is
tied to or fix it.
Can any of you point me in a direction to try and figure out what this
is? I suspect it is a virus that is not identified by Norton, but I
can not find any information about this anywhere and an very
frustrated because my IT support wants to refresh my entire machine.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
direction to solve a problem I am having with my HP Omnibook 500
running Win2000. Three weeks ago, my machine began performing
eratically and stuttering with the mouse motion and keyboard entry. I
noticed that the CPU usage was jumping to 100% in a rythmic fashion
every three seconds seconds or so.
When I look at windows Task Manager the "system" process seems to be
the culprit, taking up to 99% of the CPU. The graphic on the task
manager looks like an EKG reading.
It usually takes about 2 hours for this to get to the point that I
have to reboot the machine. In other words this slowly seems to build
up taking more and more CPU until it locks everything up. Always in
this rythmic frequency. If I reboot, it goes aways and slowly begins
building back up again over the next two hours. It seems to not matter
which or how many program I have running.
I have done the following:
Cleaned my hard disk up and defragmented
Upgraded to Service Pack 4
Run Adaware and Spybot
Done a virus scan on the machine manually (the system has Norton
Antivirus Corp edition that runs weekly)
Deleted any running programs that I do not recognize or need
Run perfmon and identified one thread that seems to be aligned with
the CPU usage, but do not know how to identify what this thread is
tied to or fix it.
Can any of you point me in a direction to try and figure out what this
is? I suspect it is a virus that is not identified by Norton, but I
can not find any information about this anywhere and an very
frustrated because my IT support wants to refresh my entire machine.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.