The error code you are seeing is by design and nothing to worry about. I
would suggest that you get a good process viewer, i.e. Process Explorer,
free, from www.sysinternals.com or you could go directly to the page of
utilities, http://www.sysinternals.com/win9x/98utilities.shtml and download
from there.
This app will show you ALL processes that are running, including background
processes, that may or may not show otherwise and it will provide the amount
of cpu usage, in %, by each. Hopefully, it will direct you to the offending
process. I suspect you have some sort of malware that is eating your cpu
cycles. Post back with what you find.
Heirloom, old and hope that helps


"McCheez" wrote in message
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Everything is running very slow, mouse cursor is slow to respond and a
delay
in entering text from the keyboard, programs slow to open. Checked with
system monitor, it showed kernel processor usage at 100% - constantly.

I have rebooted and closed unnecessary programs, and monitor will show 5%,
11%, even 20% at max. But after a few minutes or after opening a program
(like Word, Access, MSN or IE) it goes right back to a VERY slow response.
I
checked System Information: running tasks appeared normal, everything else
appeared normal; however, problem devices showed error code 22 for the
device
'ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering'. I've got no idea what that is.

PLEASE HELP!!!