phaser-X <px (at) zeroday (dot) net [email concealed]> writes:
> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates. Two win2k computers in
> my office were rendered useless after the patch. They were fine before,
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU usage
> was 100% and nothing could be done. I left both PC's sitting for about 20
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down. Another coworker said he
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get into
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up 99-100%
> of the CPU.
>
> Anyone else experience this issue?
A consulting client of mine had the same complaint. He was only able
to fix it by re-installing Windows. You may want to mention it on
NTBugTraq, they often discuss and sort out things like this.
> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates. Two win2k computers in
> my office were rendered useless after the patch. They were fine before,
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU usage
> was 100% and nothing could be done. I left both PC's sitting for about 20
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down. Another coworker said he
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get into
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up 99-100%
> of the CPU.
>
> Anyone else experience this issue?
A consulting client of mine had the same complaint. He was only able
to fix it by re-installing Windows. You may want to mention it on
NTBugTraq, they often discuss and sort out things like this.
----ScottG.
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