Capture drops every 15 min on W2K...

[BUL]

Sort of a newbie question here... Because of SERVICES.EXE, during a capture I lose about 10 seconds of video capture (but audio continues capturing) every 15 minutes. Here's my setup: PII/300, 384MB RAM, plenty of HD, ATI All in Wonder Pro AGP, W2K SP3. Using VirtualDub 1.4.10 with PICVideo MJPEG compression is adequate enough on my machine --captures take only about 50% of the CPU time as I won't run anything else while capturing.

Watching the W2K Task Manager's app CPU utilization, every 15 minutes or so, SERVICES.EXE spikes up to 99% CPU for about 10-15 seconds. This causes me to not capture video frames during this time. All my apps (excluding Task Manager) become unresponsive, capturing or not. In Task Manager, SERVICES.EXE is given normal priority. After looking closer at the active services on my PC, I find that SERVICES.EXE runs the DHCP client, DNS client, Plug and Play, etc.--so it's pretty important.

So, to see if I could improve the capture rate, I would load Task Manager before starting a capture. When the capture first begins, I would switch the priority of VirtualDub.exe to Realtime. This however has no effect as when SERVICES.EXE wants the processor time, it still gets it (even though it has normal priority).

This all seems to have started with going to W2K-SP3 (from SP2), or could be weird timing. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with SERVICES.EXE taking up all the processor time? Obviously, I know what the problem is, but I don't know what the solution is... Thanks!

[therick]

I would say get rid of SP3. This has to be like the 347th comlaint that I have heard about it.