RE: After Ms patches last Wed ...

["David Hayden" <dahayden () clubhayden com>]

Were you able to see what process(es) were driving up CPU usage?
Reinstalling windows probably would fix it but that doesn't tell what is
hanging.


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Gifford [mailto:sgifford () suspectclass com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:07 PM
To: phaser-X
Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...

phaser-X <px () zeroday net> 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.

----ScottG.