Howdy All

I've run into a bit of a puzzler when running BOINC on one of my home
PCs. The problem/symptons as follows - hope someone has seen something
like this before and has a solution.

This PC is a 2G Pentium 4 with 2G of RAM....it has been running Seti
and BOINC for over 3 years without incident. In the last 3 months when
running BOINC ..the BOINC process shoots up to the "normal" 97-99% of
CPU useage and stays there ..for about 2 minutes. At about 2 minutes
in the "System" process in Task Manager starts up (it normally is 2%
or less) and runs steadily @ 50% of CPU - but only while BOINC is
running.........shut off BOINC and it drops back to under 2%.....

Nothing new in the way of programs have been installed.......to cause
this to occur. Monitoring the processes shows System (SMSS - CSRSS -
Winlogon) as fairly tame and benign stuff......DPC (Deffered Procedure
Calls) also runs atabout 20% when this happens................so this
leaves BOINC about 15-20% CPU at best and with the new 5.12 processing
this makes a WU go from the old 3h30m to 11h45m..........not good

Also this is 1 of 5 PCs I have at home running BOINC.......none of the
others show anything like this......

Uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC (new v 5.4.9) - no improvement
Shut off Antivirus (Symantec) - no effect
Turned off firewall - no effect


If anyone has any ideas I'd sure entertain them............and maybe
wine and dine them too ;).

Big Bob Smith