re: High CPU by system process freezes system Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 3:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rincewindwiz (6 messages posted) A new twist. Last night I reinstalled XP SP2 from a CD (including reformat the disc with NTFS) and guess what . . . . . . I get exactly the same symptoms. I noticed it for the first time when XP started and I had to wait to type in the Administrator password but I didn't look carefully at Task manager until after I had installed pc-cillin. But I am sure it is a native windows thing because the mouse locked up a coupe of time during the pc-cillin installation. Now what? Back to W2K? Upgrade the BIOS? On Monday, August 11, 2008 at 2:49 pm, Spexx wrote: >Just for info. XP generally regards itself as idle if CPU useage etc is below a certain >threshold for a period of 15 minutes (although this can be tweaked), so that it is >possible for an "idle task" to start if the system is only being lightly used. Cheers. >Spexx. Written in response to: re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Monday, August 11, 2008 at 2:49 pm) Responses to this message: re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 8:07 am) All messages in this thread [show all] High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 11:54 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 4:03 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 5:35 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 5:53 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 1:11 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 4:38 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 8:34 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 1:36 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (beebs: Mon, Aug 4, 2008, 12:00 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sat, Aug 9, 2008, 6:32 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sat, Aug 9, 2008, 7:55 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sat, Aug 9, 2008, 10:59 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 2:05 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 6:02 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 6:05 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 10:55 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Sun, Aug 10, 2008, 11:06 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Mon, Aug 11, 2008, 2:37 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Mon, Aug 11, 2008, 2:49 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 3:59 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 8:07 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 10:27 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 11:30 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 11:53 am) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 1:07 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 1:32 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewindwiz: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 1:23 pm) re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Wed, Aug 13, 2008, 1:43 pm) 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