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.
