HI EXPERTS ,
I have some problem with my PC. I have a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz pc with 512 MB DDR
I loaded Windows 2000 OS. I am running Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Microsoft Office
and other messanger services. When ever I open task manager and check the cpu performance,
i am getting 100% CPU utilization message and my PC is getting hanged.
I tried changin my Motherboard, CPU as well as memory but still the prob persists.
Is it common?.. if not how can i get rid of it? Y my pc is getting hanged now and then
regs
raj
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hi.
first of all - the Task Manager itself takes a big toll from your cpu : 2-7 % (!!).
further more - its no wonder your cpu shows 100 %.the apps you are running are big cpu consumers.
try closing them and see how your computer usage drops.
another thing - look at your task bar and check what apps are running in the background.
more than you'll know,there are apps that take your cpu usage to new hights..
Okay, I ahve experianced this problem before on xp and on 2k, it is 100% software. It can be caused by a few things, such as the indexing service that windows uses to keep track of all the files on your disk, but this usually doesn't last long (if you wnat to get rid of that by the way right-click each hard-drive and deselect the "allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching on this disk"
The main cause I have found is actually a problem with the way explorer handles avi files! Let me explain a bit, it you have an incomplete avi file, or a damaged avi file, explorer will read it frame by frame to determine it's properties (such as video size, length etc..)
You can confirm this by starting the task manager next time it happens, I know it will takes ages to open but be patient! if you see that explorer.exe is the process using all your CPU do the following:
1. Open up regedit
2. Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFi
3. Delete the "Default" value which should be "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-
After restarting the problem should be solved. **note** You won't have any video properties any more if you right-click and avi file, but I'm sure you never use it!
If the process is not explorer.exe then there are a few other problems that could cause the same symptoms. Some people suggest that the print spooler of all things was the cause!
You could also have a keyboard issue, some logitech keyboards have some driver issues which can cause the 100% cpu usage. Also physical damage could case the problem (which could mean continuous interrupt requests and hence 100% CPU utilisation)
Anyway, hope this helps!
p.s. keep us posted! :o)
Also, one thing I would like to add to my previous post, update windows 2k to service pack 4, then apply all the latest critical hot fixes from windows update, if it is a windows driver issue this might fix it.
Service pack 4 for windows 2000:
http://www.microsoft.com/W
:o)
this is no way related to hardware, so don't bother changing any more cards and whatever. seeing as how we have not heard from you, i'm going to reiterate above comments 1) scan for viruses...their trade mark is high cpu and hard drive utilization. Load in safe mode and see if you get the same problems. you can try upgrading to sp4 but i don't think you will see a difference in performace as these patches are usualy for security.
I have an AMD 1800+ Win 2000, 512mb (2100 on a 2700 board) and regularly use multiple productivity wares such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Director, Premier and After Effects. I do have a heft cooler on the chip though (CoolerMaster heatpipe -I dont over clock my system & the chip temp is constant @39c), but theres a limit to any system running multiple apps at any one time. If you need to use tons of progs at a time then maybe you should seriously upgrade your ram. -I have 3dMax also, but id never run that on the system whilst the other apps were in motion, especially if they were running tasks. Macromedia wares tend to suck less out of your system then some Adobe programs, and Photoshop is optimised for Dual CPU's but its does work ok if your running it and say two other apps, you will deffinitely notice a significant slow down in your system.
Really, you should based on what youve said in your question, be running about a gb or ram -basically as much as you can fit on your board.
Are you logged on as the admin? or a user? The reason I ask is once here at work I ran into a problem like that. A computer was just dog slow and when I looked at its usage it was pegged. It turns out I had logged in as admin, and installed a program, then rebooted and logged in as a user. The programs installer left a program to run on the next start up that was to finish the process, and it needed admin rights, because it did not have them it would hang up. Once I signed back in as admin it finished and the comptuer was fine.
Do as Yabelson says!
Right Click on the taskbar and goto task manager and on the Processes tab click on the Mem Usage bit at the top and this will sort out the items using the most amount of memory at that particular time. Now if you need to you can simply right click on the offending item and hit End Process -but note that you will lose any unsaved documents which that particular program is using, this is not a very safe method of closing a program, neither is using the X inthe right hand top corner, you should use the File>Close menu to close programs as they can sometimes reside in the memory after you have closed them via the X.
Really its just a good way of seeing which programs are the most offensive to your system.
try this it might help
http://www3pub.amd.com/pro
and did u have norton anti virus installed.......if yes...then it could be the culprit
Having a lot of programs dont necesaarly mean 100% cpu usage. Because the pgorams could be just open, not doing anyting.
It looks like a viurs or spyware on your system. I suggest you run a virus scan using the latest virus definitons and scan for spayware using Spybot search and destroy.
It does not look like a hardware issue. Also you may want to do a clean install of Windows.
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by: kermit_tfPosted on 2003-07-02 at 22:49:12ID: 8846477
hello.
Im not sure about this but I have the same problem before, and it gets worse when running all these apps together at the same time. But after I installed the Service Pack 3( Now there's Service Pack 4 ) and adjusted the size of my initial Pagefile size to max size, it got better.
Perhaps u could try it.