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| 254350 | 2004-07-22 13:39:00 | I have just noticed that the fan on my laptop has been going flat-out and for no real reason, and sure enough, a quick peek at the Windows task manager shows the CPU usage at 100%. I have my suspicions about the services running, specifically svchost.exe which has 4 entries one very large one at 19354K. The freakiest thing about all of this is that I decided to do a full reformat, but it still sits at 100%! I even disabled all of the processes but no change. Also, it hangs on shutdown everytime. Has anyone ever had this experience, how do I fix this? |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 254351 | 2004-07-22 18:52:00 | Are you sure your suspicious entry is svchost, which is part of the Windows system, and not scvhost (2nd & 3rd letters transposed), which is a worm that could have taken over some of your running processes? What virus & spyware checking have you done? And what is your OS? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 254352 | 2004-07-22 23:11:00 | There are a number of services that could be running in the background . You can find out more at the Black Viper ( . blackviper . com/WinXP/servicecfg . htm" target="_blank">www . blackviper . com) website (don't be put off by the name) . One service in particular that can be turned off is the Indexing Service which is supposed to run when the computer is idle . I am wondering if your computer is trying to get its updates - is it online when it starts going "flat out"? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 254353 | 2004-07-23 04:23:00 | Problem fixed! I'm still not sure what caused it in the first place . . did spyware, registry and antivirus checks which produced errors, spyware etc and fixed the problems, but still it ran at 100% . Then I decided to go to the hp website and scan through the knowledgebases and came across a BIOS flashing utility which I read may help, so I downloaded that, ran it at startup and sure enough, fixed the problem . It may well have had something to do with the svc/scvhost changing something in the BIOS, I don't know, but its fixed now, Cheers . |
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