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garypriceomaha · 01-08-2009, 04:57 AM

XP SP 3 installed on a desktop
I have 1 gig of ram
200 gig hd
usb's are on motherboard

The problem started a while back when my usb's quit working. Then the pc slowed down to a crawl. So since then I've reformatted hd and reinstalled fresh copy of xp. (many times) PC won't automatically install the drivers for the usb anc once I plug something into the usb port it slows my pc way down again.

I've tried uninstalling drivers, roll back, reinstalling, finally I disabled the on board usb's and put in a pci stack of usb's and it makes it work fine. (but the pci usb's are only 1.1--I had it laying around...)

I still wanted things to work right so now I've tried to manually download drivers from Gateway or AMD? (I think) and it has now bogged down my computer again.

There's no spyware or malware cause it's on a fresh reformat of xp

When I run task manager it shows system at 99% and no other programs using memory BUT I read somewhere else that kernel memory could mean a driver problem and my kernel memory is taking up almost all the resources almost all the time.

So what could it be? I really appreciate your help. Forums like these are great! I've contributed in many forums over the years.

01-08-2009, 04:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
garypriceomaha Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 58 OS: XP	need chipset/usb drivers for Gateway eMachine T6524 (100% cpu usage) [moved from XP] XP SP 3 installed on a desktop I have 1 gig of ram 200 gig hd usb's are on motherboard The problem started a while back when my usb's quit working. Then the pc slowed down to a crawl. So since then I've reformatted hd and reinstalled fresh copy of xp. (many times) PC won't automatically install the drivers for the usb anc once I plug something into the usb port it slows my pc way down again. I've tried uninstalling drivers, roll back, reinstalling, finally I disabled the on board usb's and put in a pci stack of usb's and it makes it work fine. (but the pci usb's are only 1.1--I had it laying around...) I still wanted things to work right so now I've tried to manually download drivers from Gateway or AMD? (I think) and it has now bogged down my computer again. There's no spyware or malware cause it's on a fresh reformat of xp When I run task manager it shows system at 99% and no other programs using memory BUT I read somewhere else that kernel memory could mean a driver problem and my kernel memory is taking up almost all the resources almost all the time. So what could it be? I really appreciate your help. Forums like these are great! I've contributed in many forums over the years.