re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 1:21 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Brittnell (1 messages posted) Interesting thread... I just now started experiencing this problem (while formating a secondary drive via "Disk Manager"), and was so startled by my systems performance hit that I immediately went out hunting for an answer (normally, this system's pretty "rockin"). It's not the first time I've formatted a drive, but it's the first time I've ever seen this sort of behavior (System Idle Process at CPU 97%, refresh on web pages such as this - excrutiantingly slow, typing feels like it's in quicksand). I recently reinstalled my OS (Win2k SP3), and updated the bios on my MoBo (Abit VP6), but had been running the new setup for several weeks without encountering this (and, prior to this latest reinstall/update, I have never seen this issue on this machine, which I've been running for about 18 months). I'm going to try the Virtual Paging File tip mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but if any other info comes up regarding this, I'd live to know (It's very disconcerting). Cheers, Brittnell --- SYSTEM SPECS --- W2K (SP3) --- Abit VP6 (bios YT) --- Dual PIII 1Ghz --- 2Gb SDRAM --- Elsa Gloria III --- Terratec DMX 6Fire --- DX 8.1b --- IBM Deskstar 60GXP x1 --- IBM Deskstar 75GXP x1 --- Adaptec 21960 (3.10.0) --- IBM DDYS-T36950 (36Gb/10k rpm/SCSI) x 2 --- IBM DDYS-T18350 (18Gb/10k rpm/SCSI) x1 --- Ps. not sure if it's related, but I do use 3DS Max 5.0, Adobe Premiere, and Sound Forge 6.0 (I saw these mentioned earlier in the thread). Written in response to: re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Monday, November 4, 2002 at 10:20 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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