| Re: Something is driving CPU Usage up to 100% On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:25:57 +0100, Craig Coope
<coope1999********.com> wrote:
>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.
Sorry....just seen that you've already done that
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