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10-08-2005, 04:20 PM
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High CPU usage problem :(
Im usin an Acer Aspire 1350 Laptop for around a year and a half, using WinXP Home edition. The system was fine untell a few days ago, I can see that the CPU usage jumps suddenly from 40 to 100 even when im not using the laptop at all and even in the safemode!!! i didnt have that problem before
 can anyone enlighten me with a solution to my problem ?? I have so many UNI projects and I cant work on my pc ... plz help me system specs: AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+ 256 DDR-SDRAM (64 MB shared VGA) WinXP Home Edition SP1 P.S. "I tried formating too it didnt work out" |
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10-08-2005, 04:27 PM
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Usual suspects are spyware and or virus..
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10-09-2005, 05:06 AM
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i scanned the pc for spyware its clean (Ad-Aware 6.0 + Spybot - Search & Distroy)
I scanned also for viruses using NAV 2004 up-to-date no viruses either ... thank you ktkendall anyone know whats the problem ?? |
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10-09-2005, 02:47 PM
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Open task manager - which process is hogging the CPU?
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10-09-2005, 09:32 PM
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its System Idle Process
it takes 95 - 100 most of the time ... though i added today 512 MB RAM to the pc its performing pretty well but still havin the High CPU usage |
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10-09-2005, 11:45 PM
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System Idle Process is just a placeholder that measures the percentage of the CPU power that's not being used. If it's going from 95% to 100%, that means it's going from 0% to 5% CPU usage.
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10-10-2005, 04:08 AM
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then its not from the "System Idle Process"
 anyone knows a virus that cause this problem ?? thanx for the information thefultonhow mod |
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10-10-2005, 06:54 AM
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It has got to be showing up in the task manager. Maximaixe it and watch it for a bit, you should see a process jumping that CPU usage up. Where are you getting your info on the cpu usage from???
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10-11-2005, 06:51 AM
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i monitered it for like 5 min ... nuthin uses the CPU for more than 3 persent, but
the graph shows another thing .. its always peeking alot like 90 or 95 .. someone told me that it may be a virus lingering in a sector of the hard-disk explaining why it didnt go when i formatted the pc. Im gonna try mcafee anti-virus i heard that its real good.. thank you ktkendall mod |
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10-19-2005, 05:15 PM
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PROBLEM SOLVED !!!
My HDD was worn out i replaced with a new one and its working smoothly  Thank You Guys  Mod |
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