Hi all.
Daughter has the following PC:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Corsair 2GB XMS 3200C2PT DDR400 (2x 512MB, 1x 1GB)
ATI Radeon 2400 Pro 256MB
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
DFI LANPARTY UT nForce3 250Gb
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB SATA-II 8MB
LiteON DH-20A1S-18C 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
TAGAN TG-380-U01 380W PSU.
I built this myself from bits i had lying around in January 08 and been running like a charm on XP Pro with SP2.
Couple of days ago upgraded to SP3. It installed fine but afterwards i noticed PC was very slow. Went into the task manager and discovered the CPU constantly at 50% with no applications running. The culprit was 'svchost.exe' but ending task on this had no affect with CPU still hovering at 50% but sometimes going up to 100%. I killed every process that Windows would let me in the task manager but still the high CPU usage.
To cut a long story short i did a fresh install of windows from the disk and installed SP3 and guess what..same thing. As soon as the PC booted into the Windows desktop for the first time on a fresh install after formating the HD it was still thrashing the CPU.
any ideas guys?
Oh btw, my PC running SP3 running fine with no issues:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1
MSI K9N Neo V3 nForce 560
Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM
Maxtor 200GB SATA 7200RPM
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 SATA-II 32MB Cache
NEC ND-3500A Dual Layer 16x DVD±RW ReWriter
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 PSU
Daughter has the following PC:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Corsair 2GB XMS 3200C2PT DDR400 (2x 512MB, 1x 1GB)
ATI Radeon 2400 Pro 256MB
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
DFI LANPARTY UT nForce3 250Gb
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB SATA-II 8MB
LiteON DH-20A1S-18C 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
TAGAN TG-380-U01 380W PSU.
I built this myself from bits i had lying around in January 08 and been running like a charm on XP Pro with SP2.
Couple of days ago upgraded to SP3. It installed fine but afterwards i noticed PC was very slow. Went into the task manager and discovered the CPU constantly at 50% with no applications running. The culprit was 'svchost.exe' but ending task on this had no affect with CPU still hovering at 50% but sometimes going up to 100%. I killed every process that Windows would let me in the task manager but still the high CPU usage.
To cut a long story short i did a fresh install of windows from the disk and installed SP3 and guess what..same thing. As soon as the PC booted into the Windows desktop for the first time on a fresh install after formating the HD it was still thrashing the CPU.
any ideas guys?
Oh btw, my PC running SP3 running fine with no issues:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1
MSI K9N Neo V3 nForce 560
Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM
Maxtor 200GB SATA 7200RPM
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 SATA-II 32MB Cache
NEC ND-3500A Dual Layer 16x DVD±RW ReWriter
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 PSU
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