Task Manager shows 40-60% CPU usage.

Yeah...it's showing ~60% CPU usage at any given time. No process is using it, system idle process is showing it's usual 99. I've tried a system restore, no luck.

my CPU is the Athlon 3200+ socket 939.

oh, and this problem happened randomly, it was working fine one night, and i leave myc omputer on and wake up to see this. no idea what to do, i'd prefer to not have to format/reinstall windows.

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

I`m not entirely sure I understand what you mean. If your system idle process is showing 99%. How can anything be using 40 t0 60% of your cpu?

Take a look at this thread HERE. It deals specifically with task manager problems.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

I was wondering too, it's odd, but here's a pic.



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Bad pic cause I was running WC3 at the time; but I assure you it's exactly the same with close to no processes running.

Ok. Lets check to make sure your system is not infected with any viruses or spyware etc.

Go HERE and follow the instructions.

Post a fresh HJT log as an attachment, into this thread, only after doing the above.

Regards Howard

Scanned with Housecall, Kapersky, and E-trust. Also did the Ewido thing.

Only things found were tracking cookies, no trojans, viruses etc.

Here's the hijackthis log.

You have a problem with your internet that needs solving.

I am referring to the 010 entries in your HJT log.

I.E O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\nvappfilter.dll

Go HERE and follow the instructions.

Then post a fresh HJT log.

Regards Howard

Removed it, here's a fresh log.

That one's clean.

SOmething is certainly very screwy there, because I've NEVER seen system and system idle process anywhere but at the bottom of the list, and also the figures, as you say, don't add up.

Run HJT with no other programmes open. Have HJT fix the following, by placing a tick in the little box next to(if there).

O16 - DPF: {0EB0E74A-2A76-4AB3-A7FB-9BD8C29F7F75} (CKAVWebScan Object) - http://www.kaspersky.com/kos/english/kavwebscan_unicode.cab
O16 - DPF: {39B0684F-D7BF-4743-B050-FDC3F48F7E3B} (FilePlanet Download Control Class) - http://www.fileplanet.com/fpdlmgr/cabs/FPDC_2.2.0.84.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1141542464866
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/muweb_site.cab?1148280993671
O16 - DPF: {7B297BFD-85E4-4092-B2AF-16A91B2EA103} (WScanCtl Class) - http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/webscan.cab
O16 - DPF: {7B41B7AC-3496-4C13-A70F-DE6B60A6A8A8} (MGAME manager Class) - http://www.legendofares.com/download/mgusamanagerv1001.cab

O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)

Click on the fix checked button.

Close HJT.

Other than the above, your HJT log is clean.

Regards Howard

Fixed those. Glad to hear it's clean, but that's kind of a mixed blessing =\. Now I have no idea what the problem is.

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Them being in that position is because I have it sorted by name. As for the cpu thing, I'd ignore it if it were simply a glitch, but it does indeed slow my computer down quite noticeably when i'm doing anything

Also, this may or may not be relevant, but I've noticed my GPU idling about 6 degrees hotter than usual. (40-42 as opposed to around 32-36). Environment temp and CPU temp also around the same increase.

As Spike says, something`s deffinitely not right here.

Try doing a Windows repair as per this thread HERE. I don`t know if it`ll help, but it might.

Regards Howard

My system idle process runs the same. Nothing screwy there.

System Idle process shows how much free time you cpu has, so if its "using" 99%" of the cpu, then open processes must be using only 1%.

so if SIP is showing 99, then its impossible that you are using 40% cpu.

i think thats correct

That is true, and yet he's seeing a slowdown when it happens, so the opposite must be true. I've never known anything like that before.

I would suggest only Howards advice of trying a repair install as per the link he sent.

Erm...new problem....after 'fixing' those things with HJT, my 'sound device' isn't functioning properly. I still hear MSN, AIm sounds and such, but...Ventrilo, for one won't work. WMP also refuses to play my files.

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ignore that, it was caused by my stupid closing of an svchost.exe(because it was spiking), restart fixed it.

I will try the windows fix, it'll be a while, though, as my software boxes are still in packing boxes from my last move.

Ah! You learn something new every day. I never would have thought of that myself

I think he's right; the problem is definitely with the hardware. Is it possible that faulty RAM can be causing this? Cause the sticks were quite old when I got them(free, they were fine when tested).

Borrowed a brand new stick of dual channel RAM for a test, it's not the ram. Could be be my Video card? or the CPU itself? or could it be a defective harddrive or something?

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Just to add that Process Explorer does show hardware interrupts taking the CPU%.