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In fact, I continue to get these error messages. Here's the text, just to
show you I'm not crazy (about that anyway).... An error occurred while sending your post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're sorry, but there was a problem with the system and your post was not received. The error has been reported to Operations and will be investigated as soon as possible. Please try again later. "Olórin" wrote: Easy, tiger! Four posts in the space of one minute?? "mtvet" wrote in message news Gerry- Any response to my last post??? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Sorry. The browser interface kept giving me error responses on my posts, so
I thought they weren't going through. I re-tried a few times, kept getting the error message, and gave up, not realizing that those repeated attempts all actually made it in despite the message saying they were not. "Olórin" wrote: Easy, tiger! Four posts in the space of one minute?? "mtvet" wrote in message news Gerry- Any response to my last post??? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:38:08 -0800, mtvet
wrote: Sorry. The browser interface kept giving me error responses on my posts, so I thought they weren't going through. I re-tried a few times, kept getting the error message, and gave up, not realizing that those repeated attempts all actually made it in despite the message saying they were not. This isn't a forum; it's a newsgroup. The reason you're having such problems is that you are using the awful web interface to read this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method of using the newsgroups there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows XP, or Windows Mail, which comes with Vista. See http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm "Olórin" wrote: Easy, tiger! Four posts in the space of one minute?? -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Fair do's. But like Ken says, you'd be better off using a news client - it
makes for a much more pleasant experience! "mtvet" wrote in message ... Sorry. The browser interface kept giving me error responses on my posts, so I thought they weren't going through. I re-tried a few times, kept getting the error message, and gave up, not realizing that those repeated attempts all actually made it in despite the message saying they were not. "Olórin" wrote: Easy, tiger! Four posts in the space of one minute?? "mtvet" wrote in message news Gerry- Any response to my last post??? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Gerry-
Still wondering about a response to my answer to this post. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Gerry-
Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Gerry-
Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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mtvet
None. Sorry. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "mtvet" wrote in message ... Gerry- Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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None. Sorry. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "mtvet" wrote in message ... Gerry- Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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CPU Pegged at 100%
I'm not Gerry, but I have some thoughts. If you haven't uninstalled
McAfee, that could be causing your problems. At the very least, have you configured a Clean Boot yet? For info on how to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353 "mtvet" wrote in message ... Gerry- Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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CPU Pegged at 100%
I'm not Gerry, but I have some thoughts. If you haven't uninstalled
McAfee, that could be causing your problems. At the very least, have you configured a Clean Boot yet? For info on how to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353 "mtvet" wrote in message ... Gerry- Still no response.. Any thoughts?? Mark "Gerry" wrote: mtvet Try Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Right click on Windows Image Acquisition and select Properties. Change the StartUp type to Manual, click on Apply and OK. Exit and restart the computer. What affect does this change have. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: Gerry- Just wanted to try to remind you about this thread. I'm trying replying to an earlier post by you, thinking that maybe the thread got nested too deep and that's why it's not getting noted outside of the web browser reader. Looking forward to your input. Thanks. Mark "Gerry" wrote: In terms of system performance McAfee is a poor choice for a home computer. Replacing it with freeware alternatives would result in a significant improvement. Are you sure you have 1.3 gb RAM? You have two slots. What size stick is each? Drivers: http://snipurl.com/951ce [h10025_www1_hp_com] -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mtvet wrote: On SP3 now...got THAT issue resolved, but performance still the same, LOUSY. Updated video driver, no effect. You mentioned the motherboard chipset drivers and that they should be sure to be updated. If I go into device manager, which devices do I select in order to update those drivers appropriately? Is there a way to get the system to do a global driver update of some type, rather than having to do them piecemeal?? Thanks. "Shenan Stanley" wrote: mtvet wrote: I've seen this issue a number of times, but no firm solution, and have a few differences with the other presentations. Just want to try to get at what's going on with this machine. HP Pavilion 503n, XPSP2, Celeron 1.7GHz, 1.3 GB RAM Running Process Explorer to try to figure out what's going on. Launch an Office program - Jumps to 100% CPU, then drops down. When I then try to open a file and navigate to My Computer, the flashlight comes up, and it takes forever, with the usage up to 100%. The primary process in this case appears to be the Office App (eg - WinWord). In other cases, seems like it's svchost that has 3 threads of kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22. These each consume 20+% of the CPU. When we connect to the web using VZAccessMgr (verizon wireless connection) the usage jumps from about 20% up to 80% and back down. Just keeps cycling like that. The heavy users in this case appear to be the CreateThread+0x22. Then when anything else runs on top of that, we have absolutely no functionality at all. Any help/suggestions appreciated!!! I tend to see that alot on celeron processors. The lack of sufficient cache on the processor *really* makes a noticable difference. - Are you running the latest VZAccessMgr? - Latest hardware drivers (motherboard chipset in particular)? - What AV software? - Integrated or seperate video card (and is the latest driver for that installed?) - What is your virtual memory set at? (I suggest you let Windows control it.) - How much free disk space? - Last time you ran a full CHKDSK? - Followed by a full defragmentation? - What version of Office? - Why SP2 and not SP3 for Windows XP? - Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition or Tablet PC Edition? - If you run an application like "HeavyLoad" for a while - does it crash your system? And how long does it take to completely peg your processor and use all your memory? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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