Bringing computer to a crawl

[jreberry]

I have a strange problem, and I thought I would see if anyone can help.



I've been using BTV for a long time. I’ve had a few issues with different releases, but it's been stable for a long time now with no problems. Yesterday morning, when I came downstairs to use the computer it was moving at a crawling pace. After waiting maybe 5 minutes for the task manager to open I found that the beyond tv recording engine was using 99% of the CPU. I should also note that nothing was recording at the moment. Trying to restart was taking longer than I had, so I just turned it off and then turned it back on. After booting everything seemed just fine, and it recorded 3 shows (two at the same time) later that day with no problems. I thought it was just a fluke. Then this morning, I came downstairs and the exact same thing was happening and I had to reboot again. After the reboot everything was fine. Since now this seems to be not a fluke but a trend I thought I would come here for help. I will say that nothing has changed recently on my system that would be related. I will also say that every AM between 2 and 10 the showsqueeze runs, however I've never had this problem in the past. It wasn’t a Windows Update, because I have those set to manual. Multiple people use this machine heavily, so rebooting every morning really isn't a long-term option. Does anybody have any ideas?



--Jon

[cpmiv]

Can you tell when it died? What AV software do you use? Any other automated processes kick off (defrag etc...).