| Re: Something is driving CPU Usage up to 100% On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
<richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:
>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.
If it's only happening with FF then I'd uninstall and reinstall.
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