Bad driver high cpu usage correlation ???

Recently I have had the following two issues, I am relativlely new to SBS
2003 so please bear with me.

After booting our HP Server, I receive an error saying one or more drivers
has failed during start up. ( I don't know how to go about finding which
driver)

Also the server CPU usage jumps to 100% while using a specific application
on client workstations. The process' that take up the CPU usage are:
lsass.exe
svchost.exe (11 of them running in task manager)


While researching the issue online it seems there may be a correlation with
the bad driver causing the high cpu usage, is this possible??

Does anyone know how to track down which driver is giving me the boot-up
error?

Thanks for any help,
Chris

 

Do you have APC PowerChute Business Edition version 6.x installed? If so,
boot into Safe Mode and disable the "APC PBE Agent" and "APC PBE Server"
services, reboot normally, remove version 6.x and install version 7.0.4.

Gregg Hill

 

Right. And if that's not the issue, a failing driver should be logging
itself in the event logs. A great free tool called Process Explorer will
tell you what specifically is causing high CPU that's showing as svchost or
any other mystery process
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html. It's pretty
self explanatory - basically you're just expanding a tree of running
processes until you see the one that's generating the CPU cycles, then look
underneath that process to see specifics.

 

Gregg, thanks for the suggestions, however I don't have APC PowerChute
Business Edition.

Chris

 

Dave, I had already attempted to use Process Explorer. However due to my
lack of knowledge I am unfamiliar with what I am looking for once I have
isolated the process causing the high CPU usage.

I will keep on it....

Thanks,
Chris