re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 8:55 am
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Posted by Jeremy
(2 messages posted)
Im sorry i believe you are very knowledged but im going to have to AGREE Firmly this
System Idle Issue is real and is a direct cause of the Windows Service pack download
and instalation.
As an experiment i Reinstalled Windows XP and then patched drivers by the maker of
the device.
I did not update windows at all and the problem has not returned.
To test this further i then updated the windows with windows update and the problem
returned later that night.
I then atempted to uninstall the service pack but even after uninstalled the problem
persisted.
I would like to advance a theory that this is a direct result of the windows update
program itself somehow.
I am Open to other Ideas on how to fix this if for no other reason then not patching
XP leaves you open to serious Threat of attacker intrusion.
The olny other option is a conflict with a system that has run smoothly since last
christmas.
Im running windows XP home on a P4 1.7 with 512 DDR a gforce Ti 4200 128 mb video
card SBlive soundcard i have a sony cd r - rw and a super disk drive (100 mb floppy)
I connect with SURfboard sb3100 on cox cable .
On Saturday, July 5, 2003 at 2:52 am, C K wrote:
>This sure become a lively thread. All of my observations and facts about hardware
>are just that, FACTS! I can search through the MS KB and find the articles concerning
>some motherboards having incompatibilities. As I have posted before, the system
>idle process is normal and indicates the amount of processor power NOT being used
>or the "IDLE" time of the processor. This is a process that is integrated into
at
>least NT 4 and later. It halts the processor when there is no work to be done,
thus,
>saving power and cooling the processor. Win 9X systems do not have this built in,
>hence, the reason that software was sold that did just this, HALT the processor
for
>the cooling effect. I personally and professionally have had to return certian
motherboards
>for replacement from Asus which had problems that effected the system idle process.
> I believe it was Abit and Soyo that needed a BIOS update to solve the problem.
>What versions of Pro are you using? If it is a corporate version, I can't tell
you
>why you have the winupdmng service as I have both retail and OEM versions running
>on 6 computers with SP 1 with all relevent updates on all 6 machines and do not
have
>at start up, or any other time, the service you mention. A search on Google for
>instance and at MS doesn't turn up anything. If you are on a corporate machine,
>I suspect there is a service installed as a result of your corporate version of
XP
>or of other software. So in conclusion, I hate to burst your bubble but what you
>have as far as winupdmng service goes, I can't identify why you may have it but
is
>certianly not common on all machines and the system idle process is not one you
have
>to be concerned about as it is a normal part of XP, CAN NOT be disabled and is nothing
>to be concerned about normally... C K
>
>
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