Having installed Win2K SP2 on a workstation and sorted out all the problems with various hotfixes and the ATA100 drive causing constant system errors in the log, I now regularly see an odd behavior. Every 20/30 mins., the active Win2K application orwindow stops responding for a about 30 seconds, sometimes longer, but everything else continues to run OK.
Before installing SP2, I installed the latest VIA BIOS and drivers. However, I have subsequently removed SP2 and replaced it, together with all the chipset drivers. All made no difference at all to this problem.
One thing I have just noticed is that SERVICES.EXE seems to be involved somehow – I just caught it grabbing 99%-100% CPU Usage during one of the hangs, so I guess it is involved, but I do not know how, yet.
Anybody got any idea what might be throwing these little fits or what I can use to trace the event tree and find out?
<<< System Summary >>>
< Processor >
Processor(s): AMD Athlon(tm) processor @ 952MHz
< Mainboard and BIOS >
Bus(es): ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c
System BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
Mainboard: 8KTA3 – 8363A-686B
System Chipset: VIA Technologies Inc VT8363 KT133 System Controller
Installed Memory: 256MB (174% true allocated load)
< Video System >
Adapter: 3D Blaster GeForce Pro
< Drives and Storage Devices >
Disk Device: IC35L040 AVER07-0 SCSI Disk Drive
CdRom Device: LG CD-RW CED-8080B SCSI CD-ROM/DVD
Tape: CONNER CTT8000-A SCSI Sequential Device
< Operating System(s) >
Windows System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Workstation
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2
< Network Adapter(s) >
Adapter: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (NGRPCI)