CPU Usage With WIN 98SE

[rbeltz]

Greetings,

We're running a Celeron 600 with WIN 98SE. We just upgraded memory from 64MB to 256MB. Applications load and run faster. We also have DSL with Alltel, Norton Utilities and Norton Personal Firewall 2003 running. But as soon as you go on the Internet, the CPU usage goes up to 100% and stays there when you're loading pages or downloading a file. It did NOT do this when we had just 64MB of memory installed. Any ideas on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[rockerfellerz]

Change back to 64 meg memory and see if this has any effect. It will at least eliminate the memory as being the problem. not enough free space to delete file...delete one or more files and try again...(real error message)
RocKeRFelLerZ

 

[gargouille]

Hi rbeltz:
Doubt that the additional memory is causing this...suggest you look at the other thread you tacked onto and try what I suggested there...

 

[rbeltz]

We tracked down the CPU problem to the Norton Personal Firewall 2003. We found a part of the firewall program that was causing the high CPU usage problem when connected to the Internet and simply configured it differently. However, it doesn't affect the overall level of security of the firewall.