New Box Freeze Ups

[atlas337]

Posted For a Friend, I couldn't figure out the problem

I'm running an Athlon 64 3200+ on my computer with 1024 mhz RAM (not
overclocked) on Win XP Pro and at times my CPU will work at full strength,
100%, seemingly unprovoked. It begins to lag up my computer and eventually
gets to the point where I can't run anything. It's done it in the middle of
games, while I'm downloading something, in the middle of the night, etc. It
has done this when I was disconnected from the internet as well. I just
hooked up my box a few days ago, too.

I ran Norton 2004 scan with new peripherals, which picked up viruses, but
did not fix the problem. (It also will not auto-protect).

I ran Ad-Aware, which also got rid of some spyware, but did not solve the
problem.

I've also tried several free online trojan scanners (which are probably not
so great), which have detected nothing (besides, if there were a trojan, I'm
sure my firewall would tell me someone's trying to get in).

I run Kerio firewall, which also prevents some applications from running
other applications, and though this seems to help (ie when it's off the
processor begins running at full speed automatically), it does happen even
though the firewall is on.

Whenever it occurs I do check Task Manager to see if anything is sucking up
my CPU or RAM, and nothing in particular is. Closing out of non-vital
programs doesn't help either, only restarting temporarily relieves it.

Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Specs:
Athlon64 3200+ - Stock Cooling
Asus K8N-E Deluxe
1024MB Crucial DDR400
120GB Western Digital SATA HDD
Gainward Geforce 6800
WinXP Pro
LiteOn DVDR
Generic 52x CDROM

 

[4keatimj]

Get Spybot S&D (from download.com). My dad had that same problem, running Spybot got rid of thousands of spyware - that sounds like what you have. Spybot is more effective than Ad-Aware (i believe), so it should weed out heaps of spybots and stop the excessive CPU usage.

 

[atlas337]

this is a brand new box, I put it together for him two days ago. The freezing started before the box was even on the web.

More info:

When SCVHOST is ended the processor/system goes back to normal, but system forces it to shut down in 1 min

 

[Mav451]

You should pay a visit to blackviper's site to disable useless services (alot of them are those svhost.exe processes). When you do so, you also increase your stability cuz there's less possibility of those useless services crashing on you:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/registry.htm

Go down to the gaming section.

As always, backup your current registry before applying this one.