i have just spotted that his is taking around %50 of my cpu and i cant shut it down lfs is being very slow because of this but the only thing is the csrss.exe is always there but really high only when playing lfs so whats wrong?

maybe you got a worm some worms (like W32.NIMDA.E@mm or W32/Nimda.g@MM) copies themself as crss.exe into windows (to say it shortly) And they usually occupy 50% of cpu time

CSRSS can also handle a lot of the graphics subsystem - check out the health of your graphics card, and consider poking at DirectX. CSRSS is also a popular process to "hack", so you might wanna use a few online virus scanners

oh god dont say things like hat i only installed xp about three days ago

recommend me a virus scanner pronto

first thing to do if you find a weird process is to just put it into google. 9.9/10 times youll get a good idea of what it is.

http://www.google.co.uk/search ... G=Google+Search&meta=

second thing to do is to find out where its running from, trojans/worms/viruses often take the name of a real component, but run from a different location. (windows defender is a good utility for this, although its not very good at anything else)

Third, best Anti virus is Nod32

currently scanning with mcafee and i will let you know how that goes.

Spybot Search and destroy.

Adaware.

An anti virus package. (NoD32)

Windows defender.

those are what ive got installed on my machine, and no problems. just scan every couple of weeks or something.

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first thing to do if you find a weird process is to just put it into google. 9.9/10 times youll get a good idea of what it is.

http://www.google.co.uk/search ... G=Google+Search&meta=

second thing to do is to find out where its running from, trojans/worms/viruses often take the name of a real component, but run from a different location. (windows defender is a good utility for this, although its not very good at anything else)

Third, best Anti virus is Nod32

i totally agree with what you say abotu google doing a search and that what i done and got numerous results liek its what the graphics may be used in the 16 or 32 bit modes cant remember exactly, then i thought this wasnt doing it earlier then saw that it may be a worm or virus or soem kind of spyware. so then i checked to see if it was doung it while i was playign lfs and it was doing it more then so im thinkign ok graphics problem and lfs so here i am asking in the lfs forum where thereis people that may kniow what there doing. just scanned with windows defender and came back with nothign worng wiht the pc. mcafee is still going so ill be back

my spelling as appalling

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my spelling as appalling

you mean is

just use Firefox 2 beta - has an inbuilt spell checker!

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you mean is

just use Firefox 2 beta - has an inbuilt spell checker!

hahahaha yer "is" lmao

i have realised that it is down to my 16mb graphics card illepall

anyone got one for sale? what have you got left over from a previous upgrade collecting dust?

You'd be better off getting a cheap graphics card from any old store (online or offline) tbh. There are some good deals on, plus you can return them with no qualms.

what graphics card slot have you got, PCI-E, AGP or just PCI?

i can use either agp pci-e 1x or pci-e 16x any card that fits this slot and is reasonable will do.

link for motherboard, see below. its a great board for the money it cost.

http://www.asrock.com/product/939Dual-VSTA.htm

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i can use either agp pci-e 1x or pci-e 16x any card that fits this slot and is reasonable will do.

link for motherboard, see below. its a great board for the money it cost.

http://www.asrock.com/product/939Dual-VSTA.htm

great board, know a few people who have it. Just for the record though, PCI-e 1x isnt for Graphics cards

tbh you should pick up a Geforce 6600GT, can find them for about 50 quid if you look hard enough, and they can easily run LFS with everything on (AA+AF)

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great board, know a few people who have it. Just for the record though, PCI-e 1x isnt for Graphics cards

tbh you should pick up a Geforce 6600GT, can find them for about 50 quid if you look hard enough, and they can easily run LFS with everything on (AA+AF)

pci-e1 is something that i dont even have a clue what it does lol now pci-e x16 hmmm i have bene looking into that recently. i posted on another forum about a graphics card and i am buying a radeon X550 for £15 256mb will do i think untill i decide to put my hands a bit deeper into my pockets.

what is AA and AF no idea what it is or how to adjust.