On Thu, 5/8/2025 8:31 AM, Fredxx wrote:
On 07/05/2025 19:10, Andrew wrote:
As per subject line,
A couple of days ago my main PC threw a huge wobbly almost like
a power fail, but it was almost as if the voltage supply was
ramped down (but not abruptly cut) then restored.
I had downloaded ExactAudioCopy V1.8 and was using it to rip
a track from a CD. I hadn't used the DVD writer for quite awhile
but it seemed to work ok. I also used Avira secure browser to
do the download.
Next day on power up (I don't leave it on standby) there was no
internet access. The lights on the back of the ethernet socket on
the M/B were flashing indicating Gigabit access yet Windows refused
to accept that the cable was not plugged in.
It was *really* slow on powerup, taking ages to update all the
screen icons with my applications, hard disk and interrupts at 100%
for ages.
Later I tried to used the System bit of Control Panel to see if it
had been switched to Wifi somehow but the System ICon only comes up
with the blue splash screen and the rotating 'balls', then after
a few seconds it vanishes.
On powerdown I now get a message saying that another user is still
logged in, but I have no idea what or who this is. Have I been
infested with a 'bot', and if so how do I identify it. I would have
thought that my antivirus would have stopped it. Could this be
related to using the 'secure' browser though ?
The Application error log shows this after the 'System' failure -
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 07/05/2025 18:10:01
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Skyd
Description:
Faulting application name: SystemSettings.exe, version: 10.0.19041.5737, time stamp: 0x98d3d7e1
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.5438, time stamp: 0xee11ad82
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0009a849
Faulting process id: 0x1a2c
Faulting application start time: 0x01dbbf6d999c4f10
Faulting application path: C: \Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 72f353a0-2351-475a-b47f-a7f28a1dc4d5
Faulting package full name: windows.immersivecontrolpanel_10.0.2.1000_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Faulting package-relative application ID: microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel
What does this mean.
Interrupts at 100% tend to mean a hardware or driver issue. Remove everything connected and boot in Safe mode.
Don't take notice of someone who doesn't have a clue about Windows whose only recent experience is running Wine on their Linux system.
There is a utility mentioned here, to collect information. LatencyMon.
As far as I can remember, that is the replacement for "DPCLat" which was
used on older systems.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/system-interrupt-100-of-cpu/1330ee94-e7f3-48fc-b780-77561d7672b8
That utility does not cure anything, it's for colour commentary to help you determine what is going on.
Paul
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