Got in a real nice Toshiba laptop to work on. Updated to sp2 and Media Player 10. Afterwords it would not playback any avi's or mpeg's. Video was choppy and mouse would hardly move. I found that all the cpu resources were being used. Yes 100% of them. So did ctrl alt del and pulled up the task manager. I found that csrss.exe and whatever player I was using (Media Player, BS Player, Or WinDVD) Used all the cpu resources. So I ran the Toshiba software updates shortcut. This is supposed to search Toshiba for updates to software, firmware, or drivers. It found no updates. I figured they would have up to date files when things like SP2 comes out. Otherwise they would get massive calls and such. Massive calls from owners that are frustrated is not good. So I then did a search on lsrss.exe on google and yahoo. Some people were claiming that new video drivers were fixing some problems. They were old posts so I really didn't give it much validation as SP2 and Media player 10 are both really new.

After not finding anything I decided to go to Intel and see if there was a new driver for the Extreme onboard graphics chip. By gosh they posted one on Aug 31,2004. It didn't say I had to remove the old driver so I just installed it over the top. Rebooted and now everything is back to normal. Actually resources used is barely anything! Playing back a divx movie from cd uses a adverage of only 10% CPU resources.

This machine is a Toshiba A15-S1292, 2.4 ghtz, 256 ddr, CD-rw dvd rom combo.

I then went to pc pitstop after all my speed tweaks and updates. This laptop is running at 133% of comparable laptops. A 1/3 faster is huge!

I only posted this here because it is a SP2 thing and it had to do with the Video Driver. So being a new problem with SP2 I thought I would post it for anybody else that may be having similar problem/issue!

lsrss.exe is a network microsoft program. Not sure what the connection between the video driver and that was but the new driver fixed it!