What's wrong with my processor?

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For some reason my processor after being used for awhile will sit
there at 100% any my computer will slow to a screeching halt. This
problem is most noteable when I leave my computer on for hours on end,
unused, and then come to find my processor running at 100% without
having opened any new processes and still at 99% for system idle
process. Any idea how to pinpoint what is going on? Thanks for the
help.
 
On 15 Nov 2004 16:08:05 -0500,
For some reason my processor after being used for awhile will sit
there at 100% any my computer will slow to a screeching halt. This
problem is most noteable when I leave my computer on for hours on end,
unused, and then come to find my processor running at 100% without
having opened any new processes and still at 99% for system idle
process. Any idea how to pinpoint what is going on? Thanks for the
help.
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If it's win2k/xp, look at task manager.
Disable things running in the background and at boot. If it
seems to do this after power management has kicked in,
confirm this by noting if disabling power management has any
effect.

Scan system for spyware/viri/etc.
 
virus, more than liekly, try scanning or starting in safe mode to see if the
problem occurs in safe mode

to boot into safemode on winxp go to run and type msconfig

click the BOOT.INI tab at the top and tick /safeboot (uncheck it to disable
safe mode)

boot up and see what happens, if all is well in safe mode then it is
probably software related and probably a virus, if you have a godd av
scanner... norton AV 2003+ and up to date virus deffs run a scan in safe
mode, if it comes up clean, run a scan in normal mode if it comes up clean
try scanning with ad-aware SE in safe mode and normal mode and do the same
with spybot S&D, if the problem persists it may be new hardware drivers
messing up something somewhere

in which case the fault finding gets harder, try disabling all newly
installed devices (including usb devices) if the problem goes away then
chances are it is related to one of the removed devices, also might like to
try BIOS update for motherboard and perhaps drivers update for other
hardware etc.

most likely a virus eating your cpu time or some crazy driver going out of
control, seen the sound console in windows run out of control on a pbell
laptop lol ground the system to a hault, might jyst be a freak occurance of
computers being computers

sorry for top posting, this wont become a habbit!
 
kony said:
On 15 Nov 2004 16:08:05 -0500,


If it's win2k/xp, look at task manager.
Disable things running in the background and at boot. If it
seems to do this after power management has kicked in,
confirm this by noting if disabling power management has any
effect.
Click to expand...

My computer is very similar - if I leave it for any decent period of time
(long enough for the XP power management to turn off the monitor), then when
I return, the hard disk is audibly thrashing away. When I wiggle the mouse
to turn the screen back on, if the screen powers on quickly enough I can see
in the task manager that the system idle process is at 99% (nothing
running), but you can still hear the hard disk thrashing away - sounds like
a defrag. After just a second or two of being 'awake', the computer goes
quiet again and the performance tab of task manager shows zero activity on
processor or hard disk for the last noticable while!!! So you can hear the
hard disk working as hard as it can, but the task manager shows zero
activity - very odd!

I have windows XP Pro and a Samsung Spinpoint series hard disk - do they
have know problems with being told to spin down?

I have turned off the hard disk setting of power management to see if it
makes any difference.
 
If it's win2k/xp, look at task manager.
My computer is very similar - if I leave it for any decent period of time
(long enough for the XP power management to turn off the monitor), then
when I return, the hard disk is audibly thrashing away. When I wiggle the
mouse to turn the screen back on, if the screen powers on quickly enough I
can see in the task manager that the system idle process is at 99%
(nothing running), but you can still hear the hard disk thrashing away -
sounds like a defrag. After just a second or two of being 'awake', the
computer goes quiet again and the performance tab of task manager shows
zero activity on processor or hard disk for the last noticable while!!! So
you can hear the hard disk working as hard as it can, but the task manager
shows zero activity - very odd!

I have windows XP Pro and a Samsung Spinpoint series hard disk - do they
have know problems with being told to spin down?

I have turned off the hard disk setting of power management to see if it
makes any difference.
Click to expand...

I turned off the 'turn off hard disk' setting and disabled the indexing
service and have just returned from lunch and the computer was not making
any noise - so it was one of those two settings causeing my PC to thrash the
hard disk - probably the indexing service as it sounded like a defrag was in
progress!
 
My computer is very similar - if I leave it for any decent period of time
(long enough for the XP power management to turn off the monitor), then when
I return, the hard disk is audibly thrashing away. When I wiggle the mouse
to turn the screen back on, if the screen powers on quickly enough I can see
in the task manager that the system idle process is at 99% (nothing
running), but you can still hear the hard disk thrashing away - sounds like
a defrag. After just a second or two of being 'awake', the computer goes
quiet again and the performance tab of task manager shows zero activity on
processor or hard disk for the last noticable while!!! So you can hear the
hard disk working as hard as it can, but the task manager shows zero
activity - very odd!

I have windows XP Pro and a Samsung Spinpoint series hard disk - do they
have know problems with being told to spin down?

I have turned off the hard disk setting of power management to see if it
makes any difference.
Click to expand...

Maybe system restore feature? Seems pretty likely to be
windows deciding what's best for you as always.

I have a Spinpoint 1614N, (though not running it as the OS
boot drive) and have not noticed anything like this, it
spins down and up again without this issue.
 
Make sure that you have no spywares, or ad-wares in the background. Also
make sure that the auto-indexing is turned off.

--

Jerry G.
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For some reason my processor after being used for awhile will sit
there at 100% any my computer will slow to a screeching halt. This
problem is most noteable when I leave my computer on for hours on end,
unused, and then come to find my processor running at 100% without
having opened any new processes and still at 99% for system idle
process. Any idea how to pinpoint what is going on? Thanks for the
help.
 
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