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ghitch75

12-10-2002, 07:52 AM

i have a lucky star abx2v-3.0 and a pIII 500mhz cpu and os is win98se and it is overclocked to 560mhz.I have a cpu meter and on some sites on the net it hits 100% and sticks there?I have turned it down back to 500mhz and it still does it ??Anyone else ever had this problem?

thanks

CKOZUK

12-10-2002, 08:22 AM

dont think its somehtign serious doesnt it just mean that your using all your processor power?

ghitch75

12-10-2002, 08:26 AM

when it sticks it gives me an error in internet explorer and kicks me off

redbaron_snoopy

12-10-2002, 08:27 AM

You mean your PC froze or BSOD ?

ghitch75

12-10-2002, 08:37 AM

it does freeze sometimes and i don't know what BSOD stands for?

scott_d

12-10-2002, 08:47 AM

blue screen of death....that famous m$ blue screen you get when someting bad happens

ghitch75

12-10-2002, 08:58 AM

i see, no i don't get that it just kicks me off. do i need to adjust something to make this stop?

Fraughton

12-10-2002, 09:24 AM

mine used to do that when I would run disk cleanup, it stayed at 100% all afternoon one time until I rebooted. Since then I've reinstalled windows and have never had the problem again

ghitch75

12-10-2002, 09:33 AM

i just did a reinstall last week. but it did it before that. anything else you can think of?

Texuspete00

12-10-2002, 09:55 AM

I'v had a virus do that. Do a scan.

mike breck

12-10-2002, 10:35 AM

What version of IE?

What Anti-Virus? McAfee can cause problems.

How many background programs do you have running?

Have you cleaned out the TEMP, Temporary Internet Files, and Cookie folders?

Corrupt cookies can cause some unusual problems while browsing.

USB devices, WinModems, and onboard Sound are all very CPU intensive.

Check for Malware and Trojans.

For malware use AD-aware

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

For Trojans use The Cleaner

http://www.moosoft.com/

Tribble

12-10-2002, 02:05 PM

Hit Ctr+Alt+Del see whats running, if it aint ment to be running turn it off.

I've had some progs running under 98 se that I have shut down, but they haven't shut down properly they sit there hiding running the CPU @ 100%

Markoman01027

12-10-2002, 03:04 PM

Hello ghitch75,
Go ahead and open up MSCONFIG, and select "Selective Startup". Disable all of the unwanted programs that you don't want. Sometimes when you are running a lot of programs in the background, you will receive unwanted errors.

To make sure that the programs don't start up again, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and end task if they are still on the list.

Please post back if you need anymore assistance.

ghitch75

12-10-2002, 03:50 PM

had some spyware in system got rid of it and not sticking now thanks everyone for there help!!!!!!!

Markoman01027

12-10-2002, 04:20 PM

Glad to see everything is working. Thought it would be something weird. Never thought it would be Spyware heheh..you running Kazaa? get rid of it lol