Help me....something weird is happening....

[bigperm328]

I don't know what the deal is with my PC (Win XP) but when it's inactive for several minutes, as soon as the screen saver goes on, everything freezes and the windows task manager shows the CPU Usage at 100%..... at this point I normally have to just power off the thing....

does anybody have any ideas why this might be occurring.....this is really annoying and I'm clueless as to why it's occurring......it just started happening 2 days ago....

btw...I just checked my event viewer, which is pretty much in greek to me, and there were a ton of errors regarding the true vector engine (which is what I'm guessing is used to run my 3-d flower box standard screen saver)....it does this for every screen save but when i turn the screen saver off, i haven't had any errors.

[Atomic Rooster]

That's and odd one. Maybe try updating your DirectX drivers to the latest version.

[doddsy]

i had mouse feezing on xp for no apparent reason............i'm no expert by the way. but as a last desperate attempt to solve the problem i turned my screensaver off..........no problems since

can't hurt to try it

doddsy

[bigperm328]

Well, I've updated directx and my video card drivers and it's still acting up.....

does anybody have any other suggestions?

for now, I've trned off the screen saver but I'd rather have one on.......

[Atomic Rooster]

What are your system specs? Such as CPU, video card, memory, etc.

[bigperm328]

2.4 GHz P4
256 MB RAM
GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x

[Atomic Rooster]

Try backing down your AGP setting to 4x. Your will see no noticeable performance decrease.

[imac9556]

yeah, i second atomic rooster's idea about agp 8x.
one time i was fixing this person's pc and 8x agp was enabled, causing all the crashes

[Bovon]

Originally posted by bigperm328
and there were a ton of errors regarding the true vector engine (which is what I'm guessing is used to run my 3-d flower box standard screen saver)...

The firewall Zone Alarm uses something called True Vector...are you running Zone Alarm by any chance?

[MDS]

Bovon I had those errors with pre ZA 4 ver. all the time it may be his problom also as it was a well know flaw with ZA.