SP2: CPU stuck at 100% Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:31 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by pieroxy (2 messages posted) I have struggled quite a while to find the offender on this and it happened after installing SP2 from Windows Update. Symptoms: System starts normally, and after a few seconds task manager shows the CPU go to 100%. From there it will never go down. No specific process is using the CPU, this is all kernel time. Of course, the PC becomes nonresponsive and after a while (usually less than 30min) it just freezes and a hard reset becomes the only alternative. This is after a fresh XP install from the CD and then installing the SP2 from Windows Update. Nothing else installed (but my NIC drivers from my Mobo original CDs) Mobo: Asus A7N8X-XE (BIOS up-to-date) Mem: 512MB on A1 CPU: AMD Sempron 2500+ GC: Asus V9520 Else: 1 UDMA HDD, 2 UDMA CD/DVD/RW Any idea? Responses to this message: re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (jcw: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 9:43 am) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (Adam Bradley: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:58 pm) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (Steve: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 1:22 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (pieroxy: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 8:31 am) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (jcw: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 9:43 am) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (jcw: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 9:46 am) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (Adam Bradley: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:58 pm) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (Steve: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 1:22 pm) re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (pieroxy: Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 5:53 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum