re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Friday, December 6, 2002 at 9:32 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
This has become quite a thread hey?? That's exactly what we are finding out. Nintey
five percent of the time, it can attributed to hardware or drivers and occasionally
to bad programs. Glad to hear you have identified the source. It could also be
a problem in the modem driver or the USB drivers. I'm keeping track of as many items
as possible. Some games are so CPU intensive that they will also use 100% if the
CPU time or at least all that they can get. Good Luck to every one and the following
advice is what we use to identify the problem.. Sometimes you have to go through
a process of elimination and it is better to do this before any software is installed
on a new XP install. This way you can start pulling any add-on hardware and eliminate
drivers to see what happens. If you get down to just the MB and graphics card and
switching graphics cards doesn't do it, you know you have a problem on the MB. Sometimes
it will need a BIOS update and sometimes the MB will have problem that can't be fixed.
It is then time to switch to a different MB, hopefully a different manufacturer
or model number known not to have a problem. Don't be afraid to let the vendor know
either! That's the way problems get fixed on the hardware and in the software.
C K :-)
On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 2:30 am, Wim Kotze wrote:
>hi CK (and everybody)
>- The culprit seems to be my external ISDN modem (I'll check out to see whether
it
>is actually the modem or the USB port). If the port is not connected, the system
>idles at 0% - 2% CPU, if connected, it shoots up to around 75%. (By the way, in
response
>to your question, no other processes show CPU usage other than zero).
>I have a "Duxbury" 128000 BPS ISDN TA modem. I wonder if anybody else is also experiencing
>a problem like this. While the problem has not been solved yet, at least I know
now
>that I can have proper performance if I boot up without my modem.
>CK thanks for your time spent on advice.
>Wim
>
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