re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% Friday, October 28, 2005 at 9:43 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) Ininstall SP2, or if can't get into safe mode and do so there, clean reinstall XP from the CD and don't install SP2 from the MS update site. On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:31 am, pieroxy wrote: >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? Written in response to: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (pieroxy: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:31 am) Responses to this message: re: SP2: CPU stuck at 100% (jcw: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 9:46 am) 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