Hi all,
I have been scouring the net for a week now trying to solve this issue - no success.

Problem: System CPU usage will slowly increase (by spiking) over a period of about an hour to the point where it is slowing down the system. Spikes every 2 secs or so.
Effects: Juddery sound, Juddery Mouse, Very slow PC.
Other: Disabling the radio on the wireless card completly solves the issue. Of course I can't access the Net though.
Re-enabling the Radio return the system to its previous slow/juddery state.
Only a full reboot allows me another hr of relative freedom on the Net.
Task Manager: No real CPU hogs except for "System Idle" & occasionally "System". Only other item to show its nose is "S24EvMon.exe" but not to any great level 3-5%


Hardware:
Dell Inspiron 9400
2.0 Ghz Intel Centrino Duo chipset
2 MB Ram
90 GB 5400 HDD
Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG
Wireless Drivers: 11.5.0.34 (latest)
Netgear Wireless Router Modem DG834GSP V3
OS: XP SP2 (all latest updates from MS)
AV: McAfee Security Centre - fully updated - no reported viruses etc

Action to date:
Full uninstall & reinstall of ALL drivers for Wireless Card & Router
Removed wireless card via Device mgr & reinstall
Rolled back IP Stack to initial set (Dell site)
Rolled back PC state 3 weeks till b4 problem presented itself.
Contacted ISP & Netgear HDs - both very friendly but problem persists.

Now - armed with all that info....any ideas ????

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide !

have you tried installing the card to a different pcmcia/cardbus slot? have you run spyware sweeps and virus scan preferably at boot time just in case? do you run a software firewall?

No mate - It's a lappie - if it was a PC I'd be happy to fiddle - not real keen on tinkering inside the lappie.
I have both my windows and MacAfee Firewalls running & have run a full scan with MacAfee several times - no hits. It won't run at boot unless the schedule hits in - but I have run it just after boot with no other apps running.

Note: When I turn off the Intel Wireless software & let windows run the wireless network - the same thing occurs.
I have also changed the channels on the router from 11 to 4 - no effect.

I should mention that when I set up my old Belkin wireless router / speedstream modem - the problem is exactly the same.

Seems the only common denominator is the Lappie hardware/software ??


Is it possible that this may be some sort of broadcast storm that my PC is creating by itself ?

Hi,
This may be of no help, but I was having this same problem on my Dell I6000 for a while until I looked into Task Manager (I use 'Process Explorer').
I found that as soon as I was connecting my wireless adapter, my CPU was at around 95% and Task Manager showed that almost all of this was being used by 'SVCHOST'.

Now, I had to be careful which SVCHOST I selected, as selecting the wrong one could force my system to shut down, but I selected the one instance of SVCHOST within Task Manager which was using the high percentage of CPU resources, and killed the process, by right clicking and selecting Kill Process.

I then simply disabled and re-enabled Wireless on my machine, the connection would then re-establish, but without the high CPU usage.

This may well be a specific issue for my system, but worth mentioning.

It's clearly also not a permanent solution, but may be a temporary fix if you need it.

Thanks Cyberdyne - SVCHOST(s) does not appear to be stealing alot of resources in my case but I will keep an eye on it.

Just for good measure, you might do the Prework (linked below) and post the necessary logs and a HiJackThis log in the HJT forum (linked further below), please don't post it in this thread as posting in the HJT forum ensures that you only get advice from our well trained Security staff, HJT and other programs you may be asked to use are very powerful and you can do a lot of irreversible damage quickly if used improperly.

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Cheers Mate - much appreciated.
Will take care of all that tomorrow evening.