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XP Pro: 90% of applications go into 'not responding' state
Hi all,
I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason |
"Jason" wrote in message om... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR |
"Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message om... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR I have the same problem with Adobe Reader (verry common for me).. I am using an AXP and dont have the amd64 but to be honest, I think that the problem "with the program" could easly happen on any system (or maybee just AXP based ones).. List the programs that seem to lock up and MAYBEE someone out there might have registry hacks that will help them run better. |
Applications that go into this state from memory...
Internet Explorer Norton Anti-Virus/Internet Security Netscape (installed it to eliminate IE as the issue) Remote Desktop (sometimes this continues to work) but the BBC ticker still works - this is a news ticker bar at running at the bottom of the screen. This never seems to hang when the PC goes into this state. If you go into Task Manager, then all the resources are at zero or hardly utilised, cpu is 95+% free, loads of memory left, no lan traffic. I am sure that if I try and start any application when the PC is in this state then the it will hang (after it starts). "Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message om... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR |
"Jason" wrote in message om... Applications that go into this state from memory... Internet Explorer Norton Anti-Virus/Internet Security Netscape (installed it to eliminate IE as the issue) Remote Desktop (sometimes this continues to work) but the BBC ticker still works - this is a news ticker bar at running at the bottom of the screen. This never seems to hang when the PC goes into this state. If you go into Task Manager, then all the resources are at zero or hardly utilised, cpu is 95+% free, loads of memory left, no lan traffic. I am sure that if I try and start any application when the PC is in this state then the it will hang (after it starts). Jason, have you tried a blaster removal tool? http://securityresponse.symantec.com...oval.tool.html |
Jason wrote:
Applications that go into this state from memory... Snip "Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message .com... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR Have you tried running a spyware detector application like WebSweeper or something like Ad-Aware? You *might* be infected with a trojan or spyware application that kicks in every so often taking CPU time away from other legitimate applications. Free Spyware checker - must be online for this to run http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm Link to Lavasoft's Ad-Aware personal edition - free for personal use http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Hope this helps! -- JasonB To reply, replace nospam4me with blueyonder |
have you tried disconnecting your internet connection?
"JasonB" wrote in message . uk... Jason wrote: Applications that go into this state from memory... Snip "Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message e.com... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR Have you tried running a spyware detector application like WebSweeper or something like Ad-Aware? You *might* be infected with a trojan or spyware application that kicks in every so often taking CPU time away from other legitimate applications. Free Spyware checker - must be online for this to run http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm Link to Lavasoft's Ad-Aware personal edition - free for personal use http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Hope this helps! -- JasonB To reply, replace nospam4me with blueyonder |
Well after some experimenting I think it is Yahoo Messenger that is
causing the issue. Anyone seen similar? "rstlne" wrote in message ... "Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message om... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR I have the same problem with Adobe Reader (verry common for me).. I am using an AXP and dont have the amd64 but to be honest, I think that the problem "with the program" could easly happen on any system (or maybee just AXP based ones).. List the programs that seem to lock up and MAYBEE someone out there might have registry hacks that will help them run better. |
No it isn't Yahoo Messenger, that must have been a coincedence. It
just happened on Messenger wasn't running. Still wondering what is causing this! "rstlne" wrote in message ... "Mark BR" wrote in message ... "Jason" wrote in message om... Hi all, I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait 5-10 minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know where to start troubleshooting. Is there a application that can check what these processes are being blocked on or give me some further help on this issue. My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and RAID 1 (mirrored pair). Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Jason Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have a bad CD in the drive. Mark BR I have the same problem with Adobe Reader (verry common for me).. I am using an AXP and dont have the amd64 but to be honest, I think that the problem "with the program" could easly happen on any system (or maybee just AXP based ones).. List the programs that seem to lock up and MAYBEE someone out there might have registry hacks that will help them run better. |
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