Dell Precision M70. CPU spiking every 5 secs to approx 80%.
SysInternals Process Explorer tells me one particular instance of svchost is spiking. Its the one that hosts around 24 services including AudiSrv, Browser, Themes etc
Thx
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 22:53:11, on 12/02/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011)
Then
Start, Run,
cmd,
OK to bring up a new black cmd window. Type (with an Enter after each bold line)
tasklist.exe /svc > \junk.txt
netstat -o >> \junk.txt
notepad \junk.txt
(This will bring up notepad. Copy the section where it talks about svchost.exe and paste it into a reply. Also copy the bottom section that starts with Active Connections and paste it to the same reply.)
MANY thx for looking at this - its driving me mad. Info requested below.
A few things I've noticed:
- Problem goes away if I run MSConfig and choose mimimal startup, but if I do a defrag during this time, I see the same 5 sec spikes. I wonder whether its something to do with the lazer writer that flushes the disk cache?
- I've tried shutting down each of the services in SVCHOST but got 'access denied' for some of them even tho I'm an administrator. RASMan inparticular showed Access Denied.
- Problem exists even when I'm disconnected from network and wireless netword disabled.
It seems likely that there should be an Event recorded for whatever is going on since it's probably not normal.
Check the Event logs for errors:
Start, Run, eventvwr.msc, OK then select System. Look for red marked files that have a time stamp about the time of the slowdown. Open the event then click on the bottom of the three buttons to copy the text. Move to a reply and Edit, Paste. Repeat for any other different errors that happened during the last slowdown period or last reboot. Please don't go back to the beginning of time and no events from a Safe Mode boot. Repeat for Application. If your PC speaks something other than English don't translate it unless it doesn't use the Latin alphabet and then please include the timestamps.
Check the Device Manager for problems:
(Start) then rightclick on My Computer and select Manage. Then Device Manager. click on each of the + marks to open each item. Look for yellow marked items and uninstall them or delete them and reboot. Do they come back with yellow marks?
I think the first netstat -o was showing us a garbled attempt to reach the msn server. Maybe it's got some problems.
Reboot and see if you still get the same thing.
Also do a netstat -o again.
I'm also wondering what made all of the connections to dell.lithium.com in the last netstat -on. Were you doing something? When I go there I get redirected to the Dell forum. Don't know why you would have so many connections open at once.
It sounds like something is trying to send a lot of packets which is why I picked on msn messenger since that was the only thing running in netstat -o the first time and it was garbled.
Have you tried booting into Safe Mode with Networking? Do you still see the same spikes? Is netman running then?
Check for a bad program:
Start Run, msconfig, OK
Go to Services tab and click on the box to hide Microsoft Services then uncheck
everything that remains. Go to Startup tab and uncheck everything. OK and
reboot. If it doesn't run faster then go back into msconfig and recheck the
things you turned off. If it helps then go back and turn on a few items each
time until you find the culprit.
Start, Run, eventvwr.msc, OK then select System. Look for red marked files that
have a time stamp about the time of the slowdown. Open the event then click on
the bottom of the three buttons to copy the text. Move to a reply and Edit,
Paste. Repeat for any other different errors that happened during the last
slowdown period or last reboot. Please don't go back to the beginning of time
and no events from a Safe Mode boot. Repeat for Application. If your PC speaks
something other than English don't translate it unless it doesn't use the Latin
alphabet and then please include the timestamps.
Check the Device Manager for problems:
(Start) then rightclick on My Computer and select Manage. Then Device Manager.
click on each of the + marks to open each item. Look for yellow marked items and
uninstall them or delete them and reboot. Do they come back with yellow marks?
spanny
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Posted February 12th, 2007 20:00
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O23 - Service: PDFCreatorMessages - Global Graphics Software Ltd - C:\WINDOWS\system32\PDFCreatorMessages.exe
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O23 - Service: RegSrvc - Intel Corporation - C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\RegSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Spectrum24 Event Monitor (S24EventMonitor) - Intel Corporation - C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe
O23 - Service: SiteAdvisor Service - McAfee, Inc. - C:\Program Files\SiteAdvisor\6021\SAService.exe
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O23 - Service: TabletService - Wacom Technology, Corp. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Tablet.exe
O23 - Service: VMware Authorization Service (VMAuthdService) - VMware, Inc. - C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-authd.exe
O23 - Service: VMware DHCP Service (VMnetDHCP) - VMware, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnetdhcp.exe
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O23 - Service: VMware NAT Service - VMware, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnat.exe
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