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Does this make sense. I have an Athlon 2200MHz which I run normally
with a system clock of 133MHz and with memory at the same speed using
CL3. But, when I reduce the system clock to 100MHz and the memory to
the same 100MHz, and effectively under clock to 1500MHz, the problem
goes away. I am using 2 x 512MB Crucial memory, so I'm hoping it isn't
the memory that is at fault. Case runs at 31C and CPU at 42C, and the
HDD is 37C. Machine sits behind a router with Norton AV and Adaware and
also Spybot, and no problems seem to be there.
I now wonder if I have a memory problem. How did I find this? Well
machine rebooted and reset BIOS to standard default setting, and I
forgot to reset the clock speeds.
Very strange.
"Roberto Ruiz" <robert5ok@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Stubby, check on Processes in Task Manager which is the process grabbing
>the CPU cycles, if you find it you might do something about it. If explorer
>is the process stealing the processor time, you may solve the situation
>temporarily by closing it and launching it again from task manager instead
>of rebooting, but in this case, you probably have a virus o adware running
>as a subprocess, so you would have to clean it by using proper
>anti-virus/anti-adware or reinstalling the system. Sometimes I have seen
>this problem caused by defective video codecs.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Robert
>Roberto Ruiz
>Brainbench MVP for Win2000 Professional
>http://www.brainbench.com
>
>"Stubby" <William.Plummer*NOSPAM*@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
>news:b-KdnY8yWosIMVPfRVn-rA@comcast.com...
>> You've got something else going on. The System Process is what runs when
>> there is nothing else to run. It has rock bottom priority so it won't
>> compete with anything you want to run.
>>
>> Maybe your paging file is too small. Or maybe you just don't have enough
>> RAM. Or something could just be swapping lots of pages to the hard disk.
>> Or you are snapping stuff across a network.
>>
>> Maybe you have some malware that is choking your system. Run Ad-Aware and
>> SpyBot.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John Perry wrote:
>>> Using Windows 2000 with all patches.
>>>
>>> My machine has gone really slow, and I can see from Task Manager that
>>> the "system" process is using all free CPU cycles to maintain CPU usage
>>> at 100%, so doing anything is very slow. Reboots temporarily fix, but
>>> does anyone have any idea on how to fix properly? No other programs or
>>> processes are using more than normal CPU%.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>
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