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I did a clean boot from a windows xp cd, and the problem still occurs. Looks like its a hardware problem then?

I did, any help? Or am I screwed and have to deal with this random jumping in the cpu usage?

I went into safe mode and took a gander at the process and performance tab, at first the cpu seemed to be continuously around 2-4% usage, but then it started to jump around, a persistant 0 then 10, back to 0 then back to 10 would occur for a while, then numbers inbetween would start appearing...

For the past couple of weeks, i have been getting a blip or freeze for a split second in the computer. It is a 6 month old inspiron e1705, and I don't have complete care, just the normal one year limited warranty. Anyway, what happens is everything on the computer, the mouse, music, video...

So i just got the computer back from the tech store, they cleaned everything on the inside out and said they ran all burn in tests and all hardware was good to go. Except, the problem is still here. The music skips at the same moment the mouse halts, video halts, just about everything stops for...

Yes, I know. Only problem is is that I bought what I wanted in the laptop, and that left me no extra money. I used my high school graduation money to buy the comp, and I have never had any incidents with computer spills before this. Oh well, techie today do we will see.

Now i am getting memory parity errors. The screen is also showing tiny dots when windows firsts boots and on the user login screen, tiny black dots that are spread out accross the screen. Is this due to the screen or could the dots be caused by something else in the computer? The spots with the...

Yeah i thought of contacting dell, i actually found out that the warranty they provide with the computer doesn't cover spills.

I knwo this is the PC hardware forums, but here goes. So my friend decided to spill coffee on my laptop. It still works perfectly fine, just the sound is now gargled. I was going to buy a sound card, but I'm not sure if i have any free slots. My motherboard is an Intel Calistoga i945GM/PM, intel...

Neither Worked. I was getting the error message before uninstalling quicktime and after i reinstalled it. The alternative didn't work either.

Hey guys. I recently started getting broken quicktime icons whenever i had to open any type of movie on a website in mozilla firefox. I uninstalled quicktime and firefox and reinstalled them. Now i am getting the message quicktime cannot run without the quicktime system extention version 5 or...

It doesn't show up in Process explorer, bit it shows up in filemon and rootkit revealer.

Even if i do run it in safe mode, the error pops up there as well. I will try though.

Hey guys. I would like to thank you all for the help, especially porkchopexpress since they pointed me to filemon, which described to me what the tenisp.ini2 file was doing. Filemon says that 3:54:48 PM explorer.exe:1512 CREATE C:\WINDOWS\Cursors\tenisp.tmp2 ACCESS DENIED COMPUTER1\Tim's Desktop...

Edit:, the C:/WINDOWS/Cursors/tenisp.ini2 file cam up in rootkit revealer. It says "Visible in Windows API, directory index, but not in MFT." What do i do with that file?