Well after three complete wipes and reinstalls I finally figured out
what was going on - sort of. Check out this post:
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=628241
It seems that there exists a race condition with the Auto Update
program where it will call svchost and ping the CPU at 100%
Check out this SMART data:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPw&output=html
It's from a WD 80GB SATA2 drive I just purchased to replace one that
was failing. I'm no expert but something is fishy. Either the drive
is ready to drop dead any day now or the SMART data isn
Hello Brian,
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:24:01 AM, you wrote:
> It seems that there exists a race condition with the Auto Update
> program where it will call svchost and ping the CPU at 100%
> indefinitely. There is a hotfix available:
Glad I turn auto update off, right after I install.
Weird
Hello Brian,
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:47:33 AM, you wrote:
> Check out this SMART data:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPw&output=html
> It's from a WD 80GB SATA2 drive I just purchased to replace one that
> was failing. I'm no expert but something is fishy. Ei
Ditto.
First two things I do on any XP install are turn off auto update and change
to Classic mode for the speed increase.. :)
>>Hello Brian,
>>
>>Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:24:01 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that there exists a race condition with the Auto Update
>>> program where it wil
Pretty crappy seeing as how I just bought it. Oh well.
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Brian
On 4/29/07, Joe User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Brian,
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:47:33 AM, you wrote:
> Check out this SMART data:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPw&output=html
> It's fro
Hello Brian,
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 11:45:03 AM, you wrote:
> Pretty crappy seeing as how I just bought it. Oh well.
Yeah but that's happened to me a number of times, sometimes I wonder
if they accidently package RMA'd drives or something.
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Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' k