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Old 07-09-2009, 02:30 PM
Richard Fangnail
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Re: Something is driving CPU Usage up to 100%

On Jul 9, 2:13*pm, Craig Coope <coope1...********.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
>
> <richardfangn...@excite.com> wrote:
> >I have XP and something has been crashing my Firefox. *I've tried
> >everything I can think of, I even ran it with no antivirus. *Something
> >is STILL driving CPU Usage up to 100% for no apparent reason, cuasing
> >FF to crash. *Any idea what it might be??

>
> >The FF Crash Reports usually say Exception Violation which means
> >something wrote to the memory where it shouldn't have.

>
> >I have no firewall either. *I tried reinstalling FF and Flash too.

>
> Ctrl Alt Del and have a look to see what is using the CPU in the
> Process tab. Usually System Idle Process will be using most if your
> system is idle. Do this when Firefox is running and when it's not.



I've done this and it usually looks normal. It's too bad you can't
"record" and see later what drove it up so high.
I even tried the Event Manager but it had nothing.

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Old 07-09-2009, 02:30 PM