Rene Schrieken - All Comments

re: DPC Horror

UnderMine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:23:47 GMT

Had same issue with Acer Aspire 5672 Wmi.

Keyboard and Touchpad were disabled before login screen appeared. Only external mouse worked (on screen keyboard can be very useful).

Was able to boot a live Fedora Linux CD and all hardware worked fine so knew there was nothing hardware wise wrong.

The machine in question has very little battery life as it has almost always been connected to the mains.

Using dpclat.exe saw over 1000micro second latency. This dropped to sub 100 when I removed the battery and I got a driver error message. There after replacing the battery left me with low DPC rate but it slowly rose.

Not sure if a new battery would fix the issue but disabling ACPI works.

re: DPC Horror

Erik — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:18:35 GMT

I had the same issue today with an Acer Travelmate 2312LMi_L. I solved the problem by disabling one of the two items under device manager / batteries: Battery that complies to the Microsoft ACPI standard (or something like that, it is a localized version of XP).

re: Take a break

Fred Steenbergen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:32:00 GMT

English required?

Zondag, de dag waarop ik mijn voortuin zou gaan betegelen met een mosaic aan natuursteen, maar de sneeuw gooide de plannen door de war.

Dus op zolder nog een beetje verder met wat beelden en vanavond verder met het bijwerken van mijn website en het scannen van een zooi dia's.

En zodoende kwam ik ook een aantal dia's tegen die Erwin en ik ooit gebruikt hebben om een soort diapresentatie van te maken die over jou ging en die we getoond hebben op oud-en-nieuw.

Geinig, en reden om eens te kijken of Rene op internet terug te vinden is en verhip, een blog. Is dit dé Rene?

Een verhaal over perl en microsoft en een foto van iemand met bergschoenen tijdens een wandeling. Ja, dat klinkt als Rene.

Leuk om te zien, als ik eens niets te doen heb, lees ik misschien nog wel eens een paar verhalen.

Het ga je goed!

Groetjes,

Fred.

re: DPC Horror

Alex — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:51:45 GMT

Exact same problem as Jim above but with an Acer TravelMate 4060. Process Explorer told me that DPCs were hogging about 80% of my CPU. Removing the battery solved it. Keyboard and trackpad work perfectly now.

My battery is very old and barely holds a charge (always plugged in), so perhaps that's the cause. I successfully reinserted the battery without the CPU hogging. But the battery monitor showed it had 0% power left.

re: Virtual PC 2007 and Lenny

Andre — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:49:05 GMT

Thanks!!!!!!! Working now!!!

re: CSV export

Rene Schrieken — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:06:49 GMT

Yes, What is wrong with it? I didn't use much of my 'programming' capabilities last year...

re: CSV export

pdv — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:09:36 GMT

Is this your idea of a holiday ?

re: Asp.net callbacks

Eyakem BT — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:13:47 GMT

THis is a very helpful page regarding Client Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 and it is fairly simple, enjoy and thank the posters :)

www.codeproject.com/.../ClientCallBackAspNet2.aspx

re: DPC Horror

Lee — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:15 GMT

Thanks guys, for me it was the battery as well.

I took the battery out ehile powered by mains power and the system process (DPC's) dropped to basically 0.

and as such the cpu fan etc dropped down in noise etc. and I can use the pc again.

-strangest problem ive seen in my computing / support career, of 5-7 years.

re: Take a break

Kelly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:29:42 GMT

If you keep that face, when you are back at the office, I'm sure everybody will run away... fast :-)

(found any ratlesnakes yet?)

re: Sandstone Peak

Rene Schrieken — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:27:05 GMT

Relaxing? Did you read all my posts? I've seldom been so tired. You can imagine how much I look forward to next week.

re: Sandstone Peak

Edward — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:33:18 GMT

Looks like you are having a few days of relaxing before the real thing starts next week! See you next week!!

re: PDC 2008

RJ — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:38:58 GMT

Nice Rene!

Hope to see you there :)

(Along with other -former- colleagues!)

re: PDC 2008

Erwyn van der Meer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:45:26 GMT

Congrats! I'm pretty sure you are going to like what you are going to see at PDC ;)

re: DPC Horror

Michael — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:21:24 GMT

Ran into the very same problem on my MacBook (running windows xp at the time via bootcamp) My CPU usage started capping out so I went crazy looking for malware/spyware/virus and such and couldn't find anything. Eventually ended up using processexplorer and seeing the DPCs then googling again. Dropped the battery out and bam everything is back to 0% usage. My battery still had some use out of it and I don't have the money to replace it so I'm looking for a way to still use it.