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Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Shaw)
Sat Apr 17 15:23:39 2004
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From: "Andy Shaw" <andy@east.no>
To: "phaser-X" <px@zeroday.net>, <aborg@mca.org.mt>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:48:16 +0200
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> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates. Two win2k computers
in
> my office were rendered useless after the patch. They were fine
before,
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU
usage
> was 100% and nothing could be done. I left both PC's sitting for about
20
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down. Another coworker said
he
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get
into
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up
99-100%
> of the CPU.
>
> Anyone else experience this issue?
I have experienced this issue, eventually I was able to uninstall the
patch, the specific one that caused it was KB835732. According to some
information I found using Google it makes a difference if the Secondary
IDE Channel's Device 1 is set to use DMA if available as a transfer mode
instead of PIO Only. I'm not sure just how valid this is because I have
not tried, but I would be interested to know if anyone managed to get
this fixed after installing the patch. I'm not happy about having to
leave my system vunerable right now.
Andy
