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nobbybombshell

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1,350 posts

273 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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My pc at home is doin weird stuff. I am still on dial up at home because i have net use at work. Dialled up my isp the other night to connect and it connected but then stalled for about 5 minutes spun up the CPU usage to 100% (getting it B***** hot) then went back down to normal usage when i disconnected from the net it done it again???? I reinstalled the modem, bought the pc into work and connected to the net and it done the same thing, done a virus sweep and ran spybot as well but its still friggin doin it, this is a new one on me ANY IDEAS GUYS????????

Plotloss

67,280 posts

296 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Delete and recreate the DUN connection.

nobbybombshell

Original Poster:

1,350 posts

273 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Tried that this morning as well, tried ringing a different number and it did the same thing too.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

296 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Curious.

What operating system?

Podie

46,649 posts

301 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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hmmm... an odd one that.

Only thing that occurs to me is that part of the DUN process could be corrupted, so the system allocates 100% of processor power in an effort to resolve it.

nobbybombshell

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1,350 posts

273 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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win 2000 professional, weird problem isnt it.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

296 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Podie said:
hmmm... an odd one that.

Only thing that occurs to me is that part of the DUN process could be corrupted, so the system allocates 100% of processor power in an effort to resolve it.


Thats my current line of thinking, but I am at a loss now its been deleted and recreated.

If the DUN was deleted then all its protocols and bindings should go with it.

Anything in the Event Log?

Podie

46,649 posts

301 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Plotloss said:

Podie said:
hmmm... an odd one that.

Only thing that occurs to me is that part of the DUN process could be corrupted, so the system allocates 100% of processor power in an effort to resolve it.



Thats my current line of thinking, but I am at a loss now its been deleted and recreated.

If the DUN was deleted then all its protocols and bindings should go with it.

Anything in the Event Log?


Hopefully event log will show something... it may be further embedded in Windows than just DUN settings... DLL missing or something..?

Very strange...

jam1et

1,536 posts

278 months

Wednesday 14th April 2004
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Which service is actually causing the 100% usage? If its just a home PC try disabling the "RPC locator service".
Is it doing it if you just connect to your ISP and dont start Internet Explorer?
Got all the latest service packs?

>> Edited by jam1et on Wednesday 14th April 11:22