omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 The process "system process" CPU spikes approximately every 5 seconds. I've searched google and there's thousands of people with this issue but with either no fix or completely random fixes. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it. Troubleshooting doesn't find anything with any of these cases and i've tried all the fixes they suggest.Win XP1GB Ram9550 Radeon graphics card (i think)2.8GHz CPUPeter
cluberti Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Since the system process is a representation of kernel-mode activity, spiking CPU in the system process can literally be anything at all installed on the machine with kernel-mode components (like firewall, antivirus, antispyware, backup software, etc).The real question is, does it repro in safe mode?
omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Author Posted July 23, 2007 It does. I've also closed all programs and the problem persists.
cluberti Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 The system process spikes in safe mode - hmmm... OK, how long do these spikes last? We know they occur every 5 seconds, but how long do they last?
omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Author Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) The timebase is 1 second Edited July 23, 2007 by omgwtflmao
omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Author Posted July 23, 2007 Yes, and as i said i've closed down all programs before with no change. That includes firewall, antivirus, antispyware etc etc
cluberti Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 OK, but kernel-mode drivers don't unload when their user-mode services are disabled. Can you uninstall your firewall and antivirus software to remove the kernel-mode drivers and retest?
omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Author Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) Ah Thank you! I uninstalled them both and it stopped. I think it was probably zone alarm. Now will the problem come back if i reinstall it? If so, are there any other free firewalls you can suggest?*later* I reinstalled nod32 and it came back, so zone alarm was ok. Edited July 23, 2007 by omgwtflmao
cluberti Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 I'd say avast is a good alternative to nod32, but if you require nod32 perhaps you can contact them and tell them your problem . Glad to hear you figured it out.
omgwtflmao Posted July 23, 2007 Author Posted July 23, 2007 I only just switched to nod32 from avast recently. avast also found a trojan nod32 could see but not delete.. so now i'm doubly happy.
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