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Last post Author Topic: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!  (Read 29379 times)

Junglerooster

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100%
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2007, 09:58 AM »
The CPU temp is 95, so I don't think it's that.  It will run pretty good sometimes and then other times it runs slow.  Do you think that it could possibly be the harddive?  Because my harddrive seems to be humming really loud.


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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2007, 10:06 AM »
Motherboard problem perhaps?
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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2007, 10:10 AM »
What's the best way to test the motherboard to check and see if it's bad?

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2007, 10:12 AM »
There is a system idle process that runs about 80 to 90% of my CPU almost all the time. 

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2007, 10:34 AM »
Do you mean 95°C? That seems not ok to me. My CPU has 28°C on idle and 52°C on ramming speed. Btw, an idle process with 90% is ok. The idle process colltects the time the cpu is idle.

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2007, 10:52 AM »
The cpu is running at 40c/104f and motherboard is 28c/82f right now.

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2007, 11:07 AM »
could it be my cpu? I went from a 2.4 ghz to 3.0 cpu.  All the websites that I looked at say the motherboard will support 1.4 to 2.2+ 

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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #32 on: September 25, 2007, 02:04 AM »
"System Idle Process" is the process windows schedules when it has nothing else to do - it means your system is idle :). So the higher "CPU usage" this special pseudo-process has, the better (the less your system has to do).

40c/28c idle temperatures are fine, nothing to worry about.
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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #33 on: September 25, 2007, 05:32 AM »
Junglerooster, what type of CPU is yours? maybe the motherboard needs some new drivers to adjust to the cpu.. just my 2¢.


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Re: CPU Usage shoots up to 100% !?!
« Reply #34 on: September 25, 2007, 09:05 AM »
I have an ASUS P4S533 Motherboard and an 2.4 GHZ 512K 533 Buss Northwood CPU.