BleepingComputer.com: Slow 10-13 Min Start Time With Choppy Sounds And Cpu Spikes

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Are you certain the first letter of the file is v and not w?

If it is v, from what I have read it is a backdoor trojan or virus in which case, I'd PM the person who looked over your HJT log with the info. that you have seen that file and request that your HJT thread be reopened.

Orange Blossom

my bad, made a typo. The process is wmiprvse that is running twice on startup and then later disappears, not vmiprvse. Sorry about the confusion!

Here is a link with info. about wmiprvse: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/wmiprvse.exe.html

Orange Blossom

Thanks Orange Blossom for the info. I ran security Task Manager during startup and both of them come up as complete not threats, say about 10% or less chance. So still, I have no idea what's up, but having fun trying to figure it out. Anymore ideas, always welcome!

Since you've got a nice system with plenty of RAM - there's gotta be another reason for the choppy Media Player. Since it's gotten better after you've stopped the startups, this still seems to point to a resource issue.

Resources aren't just the RAM on the system - they also have to do with the CPU, the video card, the hard drive, the system bus, etc.. So, I presume that it's being "bottlenecked" somewhere in the system.

Since you've been able to test it with only the Media Player running - it seems related to that (but this isn't certain). Can you test to see if it still becomes choppy after all the other processes are stopped?

Hello, I followed this thread through a google search, since i personally have a HP Pavilion dv5000 64 althalon, blah blah blah just like pfloyd1220's. I have done alot of indeptch scans, virus/malware/spyware/hardware/processes and so on and so forth, and ran through all the troubleshooting steps brought about in this forum. Also i have reinstalled my programs, devices, done system restores (which only helps for about 3 restarts), defrags, sfc scans, chkdsk's, mediated through other techi's and seen if they could figure it out. No one that i have been able to contact has been able to figure out this anomaly. I do know though that this will be my 3rd time reinstalling xp, in which case it completely fixes the problem.... for about 3 months. Its a gradual problem that continues to get worse and worse. Its not only windows media player, its basically anything and all things. It completely chops up the system, the sound is just a huge indicator showing the spikes and repetative cycles of the processor, and my processor doesnt seem to spike to badly at all. I dont see a solution in this thread, but if anyone has anymore ideas, im open for them. For all i know this could be some defect with the HP dv5000 system in some randomized way! i doubt it because a reinstall fixes it

I'm working on a friends pc, same system, same specs, same problems. It must be defect with the dv5000's

waltkev26,
If you have a problem you would like to discuss, please start your own topic.
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Even if your problem is similar to the original poster's problem, the solution could be totally different due to different hardware, software, system requirements, etc....
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This post has been edited by Animal: 05 October 2007 - 04:24 PM
Reason for edit: Correct a BBCode error

Hello. I would like to tell you how I fixed this problem on my system. Actually, I don't know if I fixed it but it doesn't happen anymore. I have installed a Linux system onto my PC, an d gave it 30G's. Now, with running the option of dual boot, Windows is no longer doing the problems of gradually slowing down. I've had the system up and running for about 5 months now, and all is good. It's as if Windows is deathly afraid of the other operating system, and chooses to work better. Also, I still use Windows 98% of the time. The actual problem may be in space available on the machine. But the two systems has helped fix the problem. Good Luck!

About a year ago we had some issues with a slow starting HP at work. No amount of diagnostics would reveal the cause until I ran bootvis. The issue was the BIOS on the system, and the way that HP had the BIOS hunting for stuff. We stopped the BIOS from searching all channels for devices when booting (changed the Auto setting to None) and this drastically decreased the boot time.

Ok, for anyone that finds themself with this issue, I have solved the problem on my HP Pavilion dv5030us, and can tell you what is wrong (see "To ensure that this is your problem"). Also, (see "Solution") I describe how I was able to resolve the problem.

My story: I was streaming music from the internet one afternoon, and decided that I wanted to listen to music on my hard drive. I paused the track online and opened a track on the drive. All of a sudden, the whole system ground down to a crawl, the music was choppy and cutting out. When I would track the mouse around on the screen, it would stick in a similar "choppy" manner (though it was never unresponsive). I noted that the mouse and music would skip when the hard drive light on the machine would flash (my first indication). I ran all the usual diagnostics (virus, adware, hdd, defrag, S.M.A.R.T, etc), but did not turn up anything. I found a couple posts indicating that the problem could be direct memory access (DMA) settings from the hard drive. This turned out to be the case as my machine had switched the channel on which the hard drive is to Processor IO mode (PIO).

To ensure that this is your problem: start (-> settings) -> control panel -> system -> hardware tab -> device manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI contollers
At this point, you will need to know which channel your drive is on (for the HP Pavilion dv5000, the default is the primary IDE channel). Double click the channel that your drive is on -> advanced settings tab. One of the devices here is your HDD (dv5000 default is device 0). The transfer mode should have "DMA if available" selected. Further, if you are having this problem, the "Current Transfer Mode" probably says "PIO only," which means that your processor is handling all IO accesses to the hard drive (and thus wasting many resources). The "Current Transfer Mode" should be something like "Ultra DMA Mode 5" (direct memory access (DMA), memory is directly accessed by the hard drive rather than controlled by the processor).

Solution: In order to fix this problem, I repaired my Windows XP installation using the installation CD. This forced the IDE channel driver to be reinstalled. Upon next boot, when I checked the "Current Transfer Mode" of the primary IDE channel device 0, it had been changed to "Ultra DMA Mode 5" instead of "PIO only". You might also be able to solve this by reinstalling the IDE channel driver.

This post has been edited by jthestness: 23 June 2008 - 12:55 AM

MS hotfix
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472

Just a thought. When your running XP, a firewall and a antivirus and music at the same time with 895 MB physical memory thats asking a lot.

Google vmiprvse.exe you will get Dangerous vmiprvse.exe - Dangerous. From my reading when one goes away another will pop up. I would go to I'm I Infected on this web site.