CPU usage 100% - Randomly!

[Sui]

Only other thing you can do is start killing processes one at a time until it goes away. The only thing that I've ever seen cause this sort of problem was when ms first came out with 'automatic update checking'. I seriously doubt thats the problem now, ms has changed that auto update quite a bit, and 1.2 ghz shouldn't be stressing under that.

I have dsl through sbc, knowing how flaky they can be, I'd never install their software. I used to use a 4 year old program so I didn't have to. winxp has a pppoe built in so your don't have to install anything, so if you can get xp do it..... hmmmm ok you have to use a pppoe client to connect, do you know what the client your using is? Does the cpu thing happen before you connect?

 

[SHAWN]

dsl software sucks. I would reload the operating system to start off fresh then use internet explorer to dial in the initial connection or buy a router and use PPPoE then youll never have to dial in.

 

[Sui]

he can't use internet explorer to dial in the connection because hes running win2k, and it doesn't do pppoe natively like winxp does.

 

[TravisT]

Thanks for the help

Thanks for the help, but nothing seems to be working. I talked with my friend and he is going to help me buy a Net Gear router and go in that way. I can't seem to find any other solution at this point.

 

[psman]

hey you did not say which process it taking over your processor resources if it is SVCHOST.EXE count how many are there they should be no more than 6 and no one with your name3 as a user name if it exist kill it

 

[Sui]

yeah he did, it was services.exe.

 

[TravisT]

Problem Solved!

Thanks for the info. Problem solved.

I went ahead and hooked up a 2Wire router with PPPoE preinstalled on it -- it works great.

For anyone else who has this problem, this seems like a really good solution.