For the record, I posted this in hardware because I am not entirely sure this isn't a hardware issue. I hope my motherboard isn't going to crap (I don't have money to replace the blasted thing and I've only got a Pentium 4 3.0GHz socket 478 system w/ a gig of RAM and a 512MB 7300GT AGP 8X GPU as a backup. Its about as useful for gaming as this rig has become.
Alright so today I noticed my CPU has been pulling a balancing act between the two cores, leveling out at about 100% load, its REALLY annoying, however, its not crippling basic usage, just gaming, and any other resource intensive program. I have a Core 2 Duo E4500 and the cores are sharing the load like a couple drunken jugglers. But it seems to be fine for now. I dunno which'll go first, the CPU or my sanity. I've been trying to fix this off and on for most of the day.
Anyway, here's the hijack this report:
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 11:22:10 PM, on 12/23/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\ANI\ANIWZCS2 Service\WZCSLDR2.exe
C:\Program Files\D-Link\AirPlus G DWL-G510\AirGCFG.exe
C:\Program Files\EVEREST Ultimate Edition\everest.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgrsx.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\deploy\jqs\ie\jqs_plugin.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ANIWZCS2Service] C:\Program Files\ANI\ANIWZCS2 Service\WZCSLDR2.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510] C:\Program Files\D-Link\AirPlus G DWL-G510\AirGCFG.exe
O16 - DPF: {F6ACF75C-C32C-447B-9BEF-46B766368D29} (Creative Software AutoUpdate Support Package) -
http://ccfiles.creative.com/Web/softwareupdate/su2/ocx/15110/CTPID.cabO20 - Winlogon Notify: avgrsstarter - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\avgrsstx.dll
O23 - Service: ANIWZCSd Service (ANIWZCSdService) - Wireless Service - C:\Program Files\ANI\ANIWZCS2 Service\ANIWZCSdS.exe
O23 - Service: Creative Audio Engine Licensing Service - Creative Labs - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Creative Labs Shared\Service\CTAELicensing.exe
O23 - Service: Creative Audio Service (CTAudSvcService) - Creative Technology Ltd - C:\Program Files\Creative\Shared Files\CTAudSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
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End of file - 2067 bytes
As you can see, nada, nothing strange, nothing that doesn't belong, and most of all, simply nothing that has caused this before. I am absolutely baffled. On top of this, I get an error that the windows installer won't initialize since this happened. I don't remember the exact code but a lot of stuff won't install/uninstall now, I thought it was a virus, ran AVG, nothing but some tracking cookies.
To be honest, I am completely baffled as to what is causing this, but its driving me nuts, I would be more concerned about it but I think a format would fix it; However, I do NOT want to have to reinstall windows XP, my CPU is only running at about 99F, so I don't have to worry about it burning out from the load, but I'd still like to have this resolved as fast as possible. Thanks for any help you can provide.