Re: Bad Motherboard?

Thanks for the reply. Before I do what you suggest I checked windows Task
Manager while the condition was occuring and found that iexplore.exe appeared
to be making my CPU usage go to 100%. I am not as computer literate as I
should be. Is this causing my problems and what should I do?

MarkG


JS wrote:
It may be a very specific process or application that's taking all
the CPU resources and slowing down your PC.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU %,
once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and System/Services may need to be expanded
to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

Still another tool is What's Running
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

JS

Many times over the last few days my cursor will start jumping around the
screen when I try to move it. It disapears and then reapears making it
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with: XP Pro, eMachine D2386, 512mg ram, celeron 2.3, it is spyware and
virus clean, all MS updates.

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