My PC is Excruciatingly Slow! Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss My PC is Excruciatingly Slow! in the Windows Vista forums; Hello! My PC is often at 100% CPU! I have Windows Vista Ultimate, 2GB of RAM, hardly any harddrive space, Geforce 7600GS graphics card Please help me as my computer ...

[Panarchy]

Hello!


My PC is often at 100% CPU!

I have Windows Vista Ultimate, 2GB of RAM, hardly any harddrive space, Geforce 7600GS graphics card

Please help me as my computer is way to slow,

Panarchy

[crabby]

There could be many reasons.

How much hard drive space is used, and have you used it or has it just been eaten by something?

When you go to task manager (Right click the task bar and select it) in the processes tab, what is the process using the CPU?

Do you have an up to date antivirus program?

crabby

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by crabby

There could be many reasons.

How much hard drive space is used, and have you used it or has it just been eaten by something?

When you go to task manager (Right click the task bar and select it) in the processes tab, what is the process using the CPU?

Do you have an up to date antivirus program?

crabby

Just one to add to crabby's ?'s ... how big is the Harddrive?

[felix8406]

Originally Posted by Panarchy

My PC is often at 100% CPU!

I have Windows Vista Ultimate, 2GB of RAM, hardly any hard drive space, Geforce 7600GS graphics card

Please help me as my computer is way to slow,

Panarchy

Well Panarchy, Crabby and Snuffy have tried to provide you with some advice, if only you could reply. You needed help and they are offering their service; the least you can do is provide some feedback.

[Panarchy]

Crabby, I have all of those.

[crabby]

I don't think you understood the question.

Have you installed lots of things? If not do you know why you have a lack of hard drive space?

You have to find out what is causing the issue. It is usually a process which is running. If you go to task manager you will be able to see which process is using the resources. Once you have the name of the process you can find out what is using that process and then we can start to sort out the issue.

crabby

[Panarchy]

firefox, svchost, explorer, dwm, svchost, sidebar, svchost, Teatimer ....etcetra...

Those are in order from biggest to smallest

[crabby]

You either give more information or I can't help. What resources are the large ones using? In task manager have you checked 'Processes from all users'? If you go to the reliability and perofrmance monitor what resources does it show are being used? What do YOU mean by 'excruciatingly slow'?

You must know, I and many others have FIXED these issues before, so if you only gave us information we could help you!

crabby

[Snuffy]

firefox, svchost, explorer, dwm, svchost, sidebar, svchost, Teatimer etc etc

seems he never quite understood what you were asking?
but then he is using Firefox and IE together, which is known to cause lots of problems ... the 3 svchost (I have none) and dwm only shows about 1%.
I have 49 processes showing and 2% to 3% of CPU usage.

crabby There could be many reasons.

How much hard drive space is used, and have you used it or has it just been eaten by something?

When you go to task manager (Right click the task bar and select it) in the processes tab, what is the process using the CPU?

Do you have an up to date antivirus program?

crabby

again we ask what process is using the most CPU time.. and what % .

I have Windows Vista Ultimate, 2GB of RAM, hardly any harddrive space, Geforce 7600GS graphics card

This is Snuffys computer specs also. only difference is I'm SUPER FAST.
and have lots of HDD Space left...& do not use FireFox have no SVCHOST showing.

[Panarchy]

Svchost is windows update.

I have 65 processes running


I have also used CPU-Z to show my other specs;

I had to include it in 2 posts

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CPU-Z version 1.40.5
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Processors Map
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of processors 1
Number of threads 1

Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0


Processors Information
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 1
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Package Socket 478 mPGA (platform ID = 2h)
CPUID F.2.4
Extended CPUID F.2
Brand ID 9
Core Stepping B0
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 2000.6 MHz (20.0 x 100.0 MHz)
Rated Bus speed 400.1 MHz
Stock frequency 2000 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no


Thread dumps
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU Thread 0
APIC ID 0
Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0
Type 01001001h
Max CPUID level 00000002h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000004h

Function eax ebx ecx edx
0x00000000 0x00000002 0x756E6547 0x6C65746E 0x49656E69
0x00000001 0x00000F24 0x00010809 0x00000000 0x3FEBFBFF
0x00000002 0x665B5001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x007B7040
0x80000000 0x80000004 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000002 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x6E492020
0x80000003 0x286C6574 0x50202952 0x69746E65 0x52286D75
0x80000004 0x20342029 0x20555043 0x30302E32 0x007A4847

MSR 0x0000001B edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0xFEE00900
MSR 0x00000017 edx = 0x000A0000 eax = 0x00000000
MSR 0x0000002C edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0x14100014
MSR 0x000001A0 edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0x00000089


Chipset
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Northbridge SiS 661FX rev. 11
Southbridge SiS 964 rev. 36
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 3.0
AGP Transfer Rate 8x
AGP SBA supported, enabled
Memory Type
Memory Size 2048 MBytes


Memory SPD
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DIMM #1

General
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
Part number M3 68L2923CUN-CCC
Serial number F237F75A
Manufacturing date Week 65/Year 06

Attributes
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
EPP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 166 200
CAS# 2.5 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 3
RAS# Precharge 3 3
TRAS 7 8



DIMM #2

General
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
Part number M3 68L2923CUN-CCC
Serial number F237F75E
Manufacturing date Week 65/Year 06

Attributes
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
EPP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 166 200
CAS# 2.5 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 3
RAS# Precharge 3 3
TRAS 7 8



Dump Module #1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 80 08 07 0D 0B 02 40 00 04 50 65 00 82 08 00 01
10 0E 04 18 01 02 20 C0 60 70 00 00 3C 28 3C 28 80
20 60 60 40 40 00 00 00 00 00 37 46 28 28 50 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 BF
40 CE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 4D 33 20 36 38 4C 32
50 39 32 33 43 55 4E 2D 43 43 43 20 4E 43 06 41 F2
60 37 F7 5A 00 53 43 46 31 56 30 4A 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


Dump Module #2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 80 08 07 0D 0B 02 40 00 04 50 65 00 82 08 00 01
10 0E 04 18 01 02 20 C0 60 70 00 00 3C 28 3C 28 80
20 60 60 40 40 00 00 00 00 00 37 46 28 28 50 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 BF
40 CE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 4D 33 20 36 38 4C 32
50 39 32 33 43 55 4E 2D 43 43 43 20 4E 43 06 41 F2
60 37 F7 5E 00 53 43 46 31 56 30 4A 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


Monitoring
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sensor Chip ITE IT8705


PCI Device List
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Host Bridge
bus 0 (0x00), device 0 (0x00), function 0 (0x00)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x0661
Revision ID 0x11
PI 0x00
SubClass 0x00
BaseClass 0x06
Cache Line 0x00
Latency 0x20
Header 0x80
PCI header
Address 0 (memory) 0xE0000000
Subvendor ID 0x1039
Subsystem ID 0x0661
Int. Line 0x00
Int. Pin 0x00
Capabilities
AGP Capability
Offset C0h
Version 3.5
Status enabled
Transfer rate 8x (max 8x)
Queue lenght 2 (max 32)
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 61 06 07 00 10 22 11 00 00 06 00 20 80 00
10 00 00 00 E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 10 61 06
30 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 FF 09 11 83 43 45 0C 09 AB B7 0C 00 12 DF F0 AA
60 6F 6F 6D 6D 03 80 28 82 01 10 E0 00 6F 00 80 00
70 3F 90 30 80 1C 1D 04 80 00 00 00 00 02 0F 01 44
80 22 27 30 03 81 00 04 2B 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 80
90 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 B0 80 27 02 00 00 00 13
A0 A5 A8 77 42 03 03 01 33 00 AA 20 00 44 01 00 08
B0 00 00 00 80 C1 01 20 00 CE 6F 2B 35 00 00 00 00
C0 02 00 35 00 0B 4E 00 1F 02 03 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 E0 01 00 00 30 0F 01 00 00 60 1C 00 00 00 00 88
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 D8 35 00 00 00 00 00 AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


PCI to PCI Bridge
bus 0 (0x00), device 1 (0x01), function 0 (0x00)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x0003
Revision ID 0x00
PI 0x00
SubClass 0x04
BaseClass 0x06
Cache Line 0x00
Latency 0x40
Header 0x01
PCI header
Primary bus 0x00
Secondary bus 0x01
Int. Line 0x00
Int. Pin 0x00
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 03 00 07 00 20 00 00 00 04 06 00 40 01 00
10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 20 F0 00 20 20
20 00 E4 F0 E6 00 D0 F0 DF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 22 42 30 02 09 FF FF 01 60 60 AA 10 01 00 00 23
E0 23 47 15 A0 00 00 00 00 AA 00 55 05 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


PCI to ISA Bridge
bus 0 (0x00), device 2 (0x02), function 0 (0x00)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x0964
Revision ID 0x36
PI 0x00
SubClass 0x01
BaseClass 0x06
Cache Line 0x00
Latency 0x00
Header 0x80
PCI header
Subvendor ID 0x0000
Subsystem ID 0x0000
Int. Line 0x00
Int. Pin 0x00
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 64 09 0F 00 00 02 36 00 01 06 00 00 80 00
10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
40 91 8A 80 85 8B 40 3D DD 10 00 00 00 11 30 04 01
50 11 38 02 01 20 00 20 00 00 00 12 00 00 05 36 00
60 85 8A 8B 89 FF C1 0C 12 09 80 00 44 97 00 04 14
70 00 00 FF FF 00 10 03 1C 00 00 00 80 12 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 1F 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41
D0 20 0D 00 01 22 62 30 00 85 00 04 2D AA AA AA AA
E0 40 00 00 D8 7D 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


IDE Controller
bus 0 (0x00), device 2 (0x02), function 5 (0x05)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x5513
Revision ID 0x01
PI 0x8A
SubClass 0x01
BaseClass 0x01
Cache Line 0x00
Latency 0x20
Header 0x00
PCI header
Address 4 (port) 0x0000F000
Subvendor ID 0x1458
Subsystem ID 0x5002
Int. Line 0x00
Int. Pin 0x01
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 13 55 05 00 00 02 01 8A 01 01 00 20 00 00
10 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
20 01 F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 02 50
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 06 00 00 00 00 00
50 9A 21 9B A1 2A 96 D5 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 FB AA FB AA 00 00 00 00 D8 D8 A8 28 00 00 00 00
70 16 21 06 04 16 21 06 04 56 23 06 04 02 20 06 04
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


Audio device
bus 0 (0x00), device 2 (0x02), function 7 (0x07)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x7012
Revision ID 0xA0
PI 0x00
SubClass 0x01
BaseClass 0x04
Cache Line 0x00
Latency 0x20
Header 0x00
PCI header
Address 0 (port) 0x0000E000
Address 1 (port) 0x0000E400
Subvendor ID 0x1458
Subsystem ID 0xA002
Int. Line 0x12
Int. Pin 0x03
Capabilities
Power Management Capability
Offset 48h
Version 1.1
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 12 70 05 00 90 02 A0 00 01 04 00 20 00 00
10 01 E0 00 00 01 E4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 02 A0
30 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 03 34 0B
40 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 42 C6 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


USB Controller (OHCI)
bus 0 (0x00), device 3 (0x03), function 0 (0x00)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x7001
Revision ID 0x0F
PI 0x10
SubClass 0x03
BaseClass 0x0C
Cache Line 0x08
Latency 0x20
Header 0x80
PCI header
Address 0 (memory) 0xE8004000
Subvendor ID 0x1458
Subsystem ID 0x5004
Int. Line 0x14
Int. Pin 0x01
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 01 70 06 00 80 02 0F 10 03 0C 08 20 80 00
10 00 40 00 E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 50
40 00 00 00 00 5C AC 01 00 6F 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 C2 C9
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


USB Controller (OHCI)
bus 0 (0x00), device 3 (0x03), function 1 (0x01)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x7001
Revision ID 0x0F
PI 0x10
SubClass 0x03
BaseClass 0x0C
Cache Line 0x08
Latency 0x20
Header 0x00
PCI header
Address 0 (memory) 0xE8000000
Subvendor ID 0x1458
Subsystem ID 0x5004
Int. Line 0x15
Int. Pin 0x02
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 01 70 06 00 80 02 0F 10 03 0C 08 20 00 00
10 00 00 00 E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 02 00 50
40 00 00 00 00 5C AC 01 00 6F 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 C2 C9
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


USB Controller (OHCI)
bus 0 (0x00), device 3 (0x03), function 2 (0x02)
Common header
Vendor ID 0x1039
Model ID 0x7001
Revision ID 0x0F
PI 0x10
SubClass 0x03
BaseClass 0x0C
Cache Line 0x08
Latency 0x20
Header 0x00
PCI header
Address 0 (memory) 0xE8001000
Subvendor ID 0x1458
Subsystem ID 0x5004
Int. Line 0x16
Int. Pin 0x03
Dump
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 39 10 01 70 06 00 80 02 0F 10 03 0C 08 20 00 00
10 00 10 00 E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 16 03 00 50
40 00 00 00 00 5C AC 01 00 6F 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 C2 C9
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00