> 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? I have experienced this issue, eventually I was able to uninstall the patch, the specific one that caused it was KB835732. According to some information I found using Google it makes a difference if the Secondary IDE Channel's Device 1 is set to use DMA if available as a transfer mode instead of PIO Only. I'm not sure just how valid this is because I have not tried, but I would be interested to know if anyone managed to get this fixed after installing the patch. I'm not happy about having to leave my system vunerable right now. Andy
