Steve I know it doesn't help your porblem, but I am having the same problem
right now with a Viao. It has run well for a year and now every now and then
boot up will be slow and CPU is at 100%. I have run Norton Anti Virus and
Adaware a couple of times with no out of the ordinary results. I bought
another 514M of RAM bringing me up to over 1G (960) after graphics card.
Same opperation however. It especially seems to happen if I try to multi
task. If I open a couple of browser windows or big programs it goes straight
to 100%. This only started about 2 weeks ago. I notice the problem most
iwth the following programs
Poker.com (more than 1 game open)
Firefox Browser (multi windows or tabs)
Internet Explorer (muti window)
Yahoo Stat tracker for fantasy football with another window open.
my wife recently installed SIMS 2 Nightlife.
I also run Zone Alarm.
Maybe this will help you a little to see what someone else has done. Please
let me know if you have done anthing else.

Rob

"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

> Steve
>
> Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
> the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties. Hardware,
> Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?
>
> Look in Event Viewer at the System and Application logs for Warning or
> Error report and post a copy here You can access Event Viewer by
> selecting Start, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer.
>
> HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
>
> A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
> click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
> button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event
> Viewer. Now start your message(email) and do a paste into the body of the
> message. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
> complete with links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste
> after exiting from Event Viewer.
>
> Any Norton or McAfee products?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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