System Process using 95-99% of CPU

[rky60]

Hot unplugged a printer/scanner combo from Win2K Pro, my bad? Now the system is draggin a$$. Even in safe mode, no love.

Anyone know a fix?

 

[MrChad]

Was the scanner USB? Is there a driver update available?

 

[rky60]

The printer was connected to the scanner, then the scanner was connected by a parallel connection. The hardware is gone, so I can't reconnect it. It's draggin so bad it takes like 10 minutes to load Windows, not to mention tryin to do anything once it does, ugly

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: rky60
The printer was connected to the scanner, then the scanner was connected by a parallel connection. The hardware is gone, so I can't reconnect it. It's draggin so bad it takes like 10 minutes to load Windows, not to mention tryin to do anything once it does, ugly

Have you uninstalled the printer/scanner software?

 

[JerkyBoyz0]

Yea sounds like the printer software is lookin and lookin for the printer. What type of printer also. The HP printers can do some strange things.

 

[rky60]

It was an HP, will try that tomorow

Thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Parallel does NOT support hot-plugging. You may have damaged the port, and now the lines are floating, and triggering a constant interrupt stream in the background, bogging the machine down bigtime. There are some real-mode DOS printer-port diagnostic tools out there, I would make a bootable floppy and try one of them, and see if the port is fried. Otherwise, you can narrow it down to software issue in Windows.

Also, check if STISVC.EXE (I think that's the one - WIA service) is running, and stop it if it's the one hogging the CPU.