CPU Usage keep reaching 100% and my pc freezes...

[pOlarbearz]

uTorrent will automaticly 'reCheck' files if there was an reset / shut down in wrong way / power down / whatever and if uTorrent is 'reChecking' a really HUGEE size of files, it'll reach 100% CPU usage.

My rigs are as below.

Processor : Pentium D 915 2.81GHz

Motherboard : ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

Graphic Card : XFX GeForce 7300 GT (256MB)

RAM : Kingston PC5300 512 MB (667MHz) x 2 (Total of 1GB ram)

Harddisk : Maxtor SATA II 6G160E0 (160 GB) + Seagate SATA II ST3320620SV (320 GB)

Can anyone help me or faced this problem as well? Please help

Thanks in advance.

[Ultima]

O.o

Start > Run > devmgmt.msc

Check *all* of your IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' Advanced Settings tab in their properties to see if any of them have their current transfer mode not being some form of DMA (ignore Not Applicable).

[pOlarbearz]

Do you mean all of the "Transfer Mode" must be 'DMA if available'?

I inculded a screenshoot as below :-

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1879/untitledxi6.jpg

So I have to change the [2] 'PIO Only' into 'DMA if available' ?

Thanks in advance

[Ultima]

Indeed, dialog 2 is *bad*. Switch it to DMA if available and try restarting your computer. If it automatically switches back to PIO mode, try uninstalling the controller and restarting your computer -- Windows should reinstall it after a restart (or maybe two even).

[pOlarbearz]

I did like what you said and changed it to "DMA if available". After restarting, the [Transfer Mode] is "DMA if available" but [Current Transfer Mode] is "PIO"

Then I did the second option you gave me; uninstalling the controller and restart my PC. It did re-install back itself after a restart but I found out that it is for my DVD-Writer; not my Harddisk. I decided to give it a shoot and tried to reCheck my download and still it still freezes around 46% of rechecking.

Here's a screenshoot at 19% of ReChecking

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2064/untitled2nh0.jpg

I have no problem with rechecking when I was using BitComet (That was like last year in late '06) and my friends that using uTorrent have no problem with rechecking as well. I just don't get it why it'll happen to me. My PC is not really old btw, I got it in late August '06.

Thanks in advance

[Ultima]

Get Process Explorer from sysinternals.com, run it, File > Save, then post the contents of the saved process list in the .txt file here.

[pOlarbearz]

I hope I downloaded the correct thing. Here is it :-

Process PID CPU Description Company Name

System Idle Process 0 97.69

Interrupts n/a Hardware Interrupts

DPCs n/a 0.77 Deferred Procedure Calls

System 4

smss.exe 920 Windows NT Session Manager Microsoft Corporation

csrss.exe 972 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation

winlogon.exe 996 Windows NT Logon Application Microsoft Corporation

services.exe 1040 Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1240 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1408 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1476 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1560 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1656 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

spoolsv.exe 1888 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation

schedul2.exe 220 Acronis Scheduler 2 Acronis

nvsvc32.exe 1352 NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 94.24 NVIDIA Corporation

PcCtlCom.exe 1944 PcCtlCom Module Trend Micro Inc.

Tmntsrv.exe 1608 Tmntsrv Trend Micro Inc.

TmPfw.exe 1816 TmPfw Trend Micro Inc.

tmproxy.exe 1056 TmProxy.exe Trend Micro Inc.

alg.exe 3924 Application Layer Gateway Service Microsoft Corporation

PcScnSrv.exe 2356 PcScnSrv Trend Micro Inc.

svchost.exe 1752 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

usnsvc.exe 3168 Messenger Sharing USN Journal Reader Service Microsoft Corporation

lsass.exe 1052 LSA Shell (Export Version) Microsoft Corporation

explorer.exe 352 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation

ctfmon.exe 380 CTF Loader Microsoft Corporation

RTHDCPL.exe 476 Realtek HD Audio Control Panel Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

jusched.exe 604 Java 2 Platform Standard Edition binary Sun Microsystems, Inc.

pccguide.exe 616 PCCGuide Trend Micro Inc.

msnmsgr.exe 696 Messenger Microsoft Corporation

utorrent.exe 712

Proxomitron.exe 460 The Proxomitron Groom-A-Zebu

procexp.exe 2608 1.54 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals

winamp.exe 2100 Winamp Nullsoft

firefox.exe 3328 Firefox Mozilla Corporation

Thanks in advance

[Ultima]

Can you temporarily uninstall Trend Micro and test µTorrent again to be sure it's not conflicting?

[pOlarbearz]

I don't think it's caused by trend micro. Few weeks ago that I was using McAfee (Since last few years) and this problem happens as well.

Regards.

[Switeck]

My guess as to possible troublemakers are these:

schedul2.exe 220 Acronis Scheduler 2 Acronis

winamp.exe 2100 Winamp Nullsoft

Can you test without them?

[pOlarbearz]

I'll try uninstall acronis because I installed it to plan to back up but end up I dint use it.

Will give result later.

Thanks in advance.

I've got the results.

It's the Acronis who is making the trouble. Thanks alot for your help

It works .