Hey everybody....
Normally I wouldn't put an "On Topic" (computers) item in the OT forum, but on the weekends the other formums don't see as much action as this one... figured I'd have a better chance of someone reading it.... so please bear with me. BTW, I did put it in a couple other forums, but not much response.
I?m having a VERY strange problem with a system that I just put together.
The following are the components involved:
Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)
MSI K7N420 Pro
Powerman 300 Watt PS
Duron 1 Gig
256 Megs of Crucial PC2100 DDR (non-registered)
Maxtor 20 Gig 7,200 RPM Drive (D740X-6L)
Samsung 52X CD-ROM
Teac Floppy
I flashed the BIOS to the latest available from MSI?s sight (Version 2.3) and downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia?s sight. Everything is fine until sometime after I install the drivers? then for no apparent reason, the entire machine starts locking up about one second out of every two. If I look at the task manager under the performance tab, there is a clear SPIKE of usage about every two seconds that jumps up to about 70% CPU usage. If I go to the processes tab and sort by CPU usage, nothing shows up but System Idle Process at 99% and an occasional taskmgr.exe for a couple of percent. The other symptom is that I loose all network connectivity. Trying to reinstall drives is futile. I should also point out that there is NOTHING on the system except Win2K Pro and the nVidia drivers.
I?m sure that the problem is with the network hardware or software, because if I go in under safe mode with no networking, the freezing and CPU usage is not present. If I go into safe mode WITH networking, both the freezing and the CPU spiking are back.
Has anyone else had any weirdness like this? What makes it even more disconcerting is that this is the first of probably a total 6-10 machines that I?m going to build with configuration as general usage desktop machines, but I obviously can?t with this going on. HELP!
As always, thank you in advance for even reading my dilemma. Any suggestions will be both tried out and APPRECIATED!
Joe
THEN... POSTED A LITTLE LATER
I just put Win2k SP2 back onto the machine from a Ghost. If I just leave everything alone, the machine runs fine, but obviously, without drivers for audio, video and network, there isn?t a whole lot I can do. After I loaded the nVidia all in one drivers and rebooted, everything was still fine. Then I put in my IP config info and rebooted and I?ve got the trouble back!
I downloaded a program that I?ve used before called TaskInfo. It has identified the culprit as:
DPC Time Placeholder
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Joe
Normally I wouldn't put an "On Topic" (computers) item in the OT forum, but on the weekends the other formums don't see as much action as this one... figured I'd have a better chance of someone reading it.... so please bear with me. BTW, I did put it in a couple other forums, but not much response.
I?m having a VERY strange problem with a system that I just put together.
The following are the components involved:
Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)
MSI K7N420 Pro
Powerman 300 Watt PS
Duron 1 Gig
256 Megs of Crucial PC2100 DDR (non-registered)
Maxtor 20 Gig 7,200 RPM Drive (D740X-6L)
Samsung 52X CD-ROM
Teac Floppy
I flashed the BIOS to the latest available from MSI?s sight (Version 2.3) and downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia?s sight. Everything is fine until sometime after I install the drivers? then for no apparent reason, the entire machine starts locking up about one second out of every two. If I look at the task manager under the performance tab, there is a clear SPIKE of usage about every two seconds that jumps up to about 70% CPU usage. If I go to the processes tab and sort by CPU usage, nothing shows up but System Idle Process at 99% and an occasional taskmgr.exe for a couple of percent. The other symptom is that I loose all network connectivity. Trying to reinstall drives is futile. I should also point out that there is NOTHING on the system except Win2K Pro and the nVidia drivers.
I?m sure that the problem is with the network hardware or software, because if I go in under safe mode with no networking, the freezing and CPU usage is not present. If I go into safe mode WITH networking, both the freezing and the CPU spiking are back.
Has anyone else had any weirdness like this? What makes it even more disconcerting is that this is the first of probably a total 6-10 machines that I?m going to build with configuration as general usage desktop machines, but I obviously can?t with this going on. HELP!
As always, thank you in advance for even reading my dilemma. Any suggestions will be both tried out and APPRECIATED!
Joe
THEN... POSTED A LITTLE LATER
I just put Win2k SP2 back onto the machine from a Ghost. If I just leave everything alone, the machine runs fine, but obviously, without drivers for audio, video and network, there isn?t a whole lot I can do. After I loaded the nVidia all in one drivers and rebooted, everything was still fine. Then I put in my IP config info and rebooted and I?ve got the trouble back!
I downloaded a program that I?ve used before called TaskInfo. It has identified the culprit as:
DPC Time Placeholder
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Joe