I am running windows XP (2003) service pack 2 on a Dell Inspirion B110. It has a Nvidia Geeforce 6100 video card, 2 80 Gig Harddrives and 1.5 Gigs RAM. Everything was working fine and the other day when I booted it up it took 3 HOURS to boot up and...
I am running windows XP (2003) service pack 2 on a Dell Inspirion B110. It has a Nvidia Geeforce 6100 video card, 2 80 Gig Harddrives and 1.5 Gigs RAM. Everything was working fine and the other day when I booted it up it took 3 HOURS to boot up and the processor is consistently running at 100%. I took the harddrive out and put it in my sons Presario and everything worked fine! Just to be sure there was no virus, I formatted the harddrive and reinstalled the same OS as before (I have a copy of XP service pack 2 I bought several years ago). Everything worked fine in my sons Presario, but when I put the harddrive back into my Dell I had the same problem. The only thing I can figure is that maybe my processor is going bad. I am just guessing there, as I have no experience dealing with this sort of thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! By he way, the following explains what is using all the CPU:
Well, when I run task manager it varies. The task Manager is always using around 50-60% and the other program varies. It was dumprep.exe, but when I turned off error reporting under the system menu and returned to the task manager the Systerm Idle Process was then using the remainder of the CPU (around 40-50%).
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