Weird problem!

frodema · April 18th, 2003, 09:43 AM

I'm having a weird problem with my box these days. Hopefully someome have a tip or something that can be usefull. What's happening is really weird, because I run the same apps and hardware as I have for the last 6 months, and it has never been any problems. If I sit by the box and use it active nothing ever happens. But every morning there's either a bluescreen telling some driver has messed up(mostly the video driver(nv4) or the firewall.sys). Sometimes it just runs on 100% though no services are running. The only suggestion I have is a newly replaced fan on my motherboard. This is the fan that cools the chip below the cpu, but all temperatures seems normal. Could the chip have been damaged before I got to replace the fan?? Would the board work if so??

Any comments, suggestions or thoughts are welcome.

AgentCrypto · April 18th, 2003, 10:30 AM

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frodema · April 18th, 2003, 10:39 AM

Of course...can't run any MS OS without anti-virus protection. Have tested the box with all kinds of anti-virus...my first thought too. But no virus found anywhere! This is my 3rd reinstall of windows...same happens everytime...clean install in the evening, messed up in the morning. And I don't really think the shop I bought the card from has anything to do with it...no offence.

AgentCrypto · April 18th, 2003, 10:46 AM

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smurffart · April 18th, 2003, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by frodema
Sometimes it just runs on 100% though no services are running.

Do you mean that the cpu is at 100% when you encounter this problem? Do you run any distributed computing projects? Have you run a check for spyware?

frodema · April 18th, 2003, 11:01 AM

I run an FTP server 24/7, but has never had any problems like this. That usually doesn't use much of the resources. Why the cpu runs on 100% I can't figure out. When I have discovered this I have tried to close any running app/service, but after managing to close all apps it still runs at 100%. There is no spyware anywhere on my box I think. Check it with Ad-Aware every day.

PresterJohn · April 18th, 2003, 11:09 AM

>Why the cpu runs on 100%

under task manager, what process is running at 100%??

frodema · April 18th, 2003, 11:11 AM

None...that's the weird thing. But not all the time...only if the box has been running for several hours on it's own.

PresterJohn · April 18th, 2003, 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by frodema
None...that's the weird thing. But not all the time...only if the box has been running for several hours on it's own.

eh? during those times that you say the cpu is at 100%, how can there be nothing there?

don't count 'System Idle' of course...

frodema · April 18th, 2003, 11:25 AM

Well...I can't tell really. As we speak I use the very same box, and everything runs perfect...server, firewall, chatclient, anti-virus, IE etc. But if I close everything but the server, and let the box run till the morning I either get the blue-screen with the driver failure, or the cpu runs on 100%. All regular services to run windows do of course run, but they don't use any resources...CPU usage at 0, but the total usage is at 100.