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I've got Firebird installed just to make sure the webpages I make work with it. I've been on IE for awhile and while it's a RAM hog I haven't had any problems so I won't fix it until it's broken

Try enabling DMA (Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers > Primary > Properties > Advanced Settings). Select "DMA if Available". That should speed things up a bit if it's not already enabled.

Does anyone know of any sites offering coverage of it? I though Anandtech did last year but I don't see anything

1. Like I said above, I sent him to the Symantec web scanner. I'll tell him to try the NA2004Pro trial when I see him online. 2. No, no firewall or anything. He just got XP on it last week and it started right away. Yes, we realize the no firewall problem. We'll worry about that once we get...

In the original post he said he scanned for viruses already.

Thanks for the reply. There's a .pdf file at www.blackviper.com that lists services and tells which process they run under. Hopefully he can play around with those and cut down the cpu rapage ;)

Sorry, I had just clicked through to the XP page seeing as he's on XP. So the normal tlist -s shows all the services that svchost is hosting, and then doing tlist [pid] shows all the .DLLs that it's using. Is there a way to break that up into which services is using up the cycles? Or will be...

Question, if he does tasklist /m and posts what's running for the svchost will that help in figuring out why it's raping his resources? (I care because it's my brother). I mean, unless I'm missing something big, which is possible, that article just describes the svchost but I'm pretty sure that...

I referred him to Symantec's web scanner

I'm probably pretty far off but do you have your drive partitioned? I think part of the C: is used for virtual memory so even if you've got space on another partition it will still give you the error because the C: doesn't have enough free space.

Our monitor back home starts to buzz if we set the refresh to the max for the resolution we're using. Maybe try knocking the refresh rate down one and see if it stops?

Learn something new every day ;)

Go into your BIOS and check that it has the FSB set to 166 and the multiplier as 11 so that it's running at 1833Mhz.

If it's a Western Digital drive there's a ultility on their site that you put on a floppy and boot with it in the drive. Go through the program and there should be an option to 'Write 0s' to the drive. That should take care of any information XP sees.

I just upgraded from Win2kPro to XP Pro after I lost a fight with a virus (shifty bastard). Anyway, for the first few weeks everything was going great and then when I would boot up whereas it would normally give me the welcome screen it just shows a blue background with the thinking mouse...