windows 2000 lockups

[lonewolf1983]

im running win2k, with sp3 and everything else updated and heres the problem

randomly the computer will lockup and not respond (or respond extremely slowly) then 1 or 2 minutes later it will do all the things from the past minute or so really fast and go back to normal.
Ive identified the culprit as services.exe, when it locks up it starts to use 100% of the cpu time for the duration of the lockup then returns to normal.

any ideas??

[lonewolf1983]

heres what i got from the event viewer, multiple times and this must be the culprit:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7011
Date: 10/1/2002
Time: 10:20:06 AM
User: N/A
Computer: CLIENT
Description:
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the Dnscache service.


help!

[Oni]

The culprit is your DNSCache service. If you disable that, you should be fine.

Your signature is also too large by 3 lines. Can you reduce the size, please?

[lonewolf1983]

i cant find the DNScache service listed under the services tab in adminstrative tools

sig: done... :D

[turd]

Try: DNS client

[lonewolf1983]

MS database said it was something to do with IIS, which i didnt have installed.
so i installed it and the problem looks as if its gone :confused: