Re: PC is going to 100% CPU usage and becomes almost unusable
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:56:19 -0700
LPS-AU wrote:
Ducky & Malke
Yes I have done a virus scan using AVG and updated each day. Re installed
FF. Have scanned PC using Ad-Aware and Spybot with current updates. Using
XP Home S2.
Page File is running at about 300 to 945Mb (currently [without FF] Commit
Charge PF 426/2461Mb) but did not grow with attempted FFox shut down. I
start PC each day and during the lockup have rebooted to clear the cpu
workload.
C: has been defragged since problem started C: is about 30Gb and only appx
45% full. No RAM defragged. Will do chkdsk next reboot.
LPS-AU wrote:
I have noticed that my FireFox 1.5 was becoming unreliable. So I did a
uninstall and reinstall and still no joy. <SNIP>
PC is P4 3.2 with 1Gb Ram and 250Gb HD.
Any suggestions on what may be the cause and what to do about it?
If you are quite sure your computer is malware-free (and I would not rely
only on AVG and Ad-aware to determine this - I gave you the procedures in
my first post), then:
1. If you can clearly point to only Firefox as being the problem (i.e., the
computer behaves normally when another browser is running), then uninstall
FF and reinstall. Do not install any extensions yet. See what happens and
then follow up in a FF user forum.
2. If you can't clearly point to FF as being the culprit (i.e., the computer
does *not* behave normally using another browser or not when online, etc.)
then do clean-boot troubleshooting to determine what is running away with
the cpu cycles.
Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
and How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
Again, depending on AVG and Ad-aware alone to determine the virus/malware
status is not enough. Also, it is most unlikely that running Chkdsk will do
anything to help, although it shouldn't hurt.
Make
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
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