re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card?
Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 11:51 am
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Posted by Darby Shaw
(1 messages posted)
An excellent totally unobvious soln!
Worked like a charm for me on our new dual core Dell d620 with nvidia quadro nvs
110m vid card.
Thanks!
On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm, Swidge wrote:
>If you are experiencing a 20-40% drain with spoolsv.exe involved and are using an
>NVIDIA graphics card this may well solve your problem. I know it's long but it may
>be worth it and solved the same problem for me.
> - I had the exact same problem that DUstin described (see below). My CPU
>usage was between 30-40% whilst running idle. spoolsv.exe was taking about 20-30%.
>Csrss.exe was also running high for no apparent reason. My printer spool was empty,
>and my virus checks had come up negative. I also have a brand new dual core machine.
> - However I have now solved the problem. I found that the problem actually
>lay in an NVidia graphics card driver, and this was somehow affecting these other
>unrelated processes. If you have a process called nvsvc.exe in your task manager
>and especially if it is showing any CPU activity then this may well be the cause
>of your problem, as it was for me.
> - A way to definitively check if this is the source of the drain is to
right-click
>on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'manage' from the drop down list.
> - Open 'Services and Applications' on the bottom of the left hand list.
>then click on 'Services'.
>A list of services that begin when you start your computer is displayed.
> - Look for 'NVIDIA Display Driver Service'.
>Double click on this and you are presented with anoher window displaying the service's
>properties.
> - Near the bottom of the 'General' tab you should find a section entitled
>'Service status:'. It should say 'started'.
>Now simply click on the 'Stop' button. (Note this is completely reversable if you
>are worried.)
> - This will stop the service. Once it has finished stopping the service,
>it'll probably take a few seconds and will briefly display a progress bar, open
the
>task manager and your CPU usage problem should be gone. Mine was.
> - If this did not solve your problem, then click on the 'Start' button
and
>the service will start again and I'm sorry that this did not solve your problem.
> - However, if this did solve your problem, then this shows that there is
>a problem with part of your NVIDIA driver.
> - The best move is to download a new driver. Unfortunately I can't help
>you much there unless your machine was a Dell. If it was, you should be able to
find
>an NVIDIA driver package appropriate to your graphics card available to download
>on their website. I did this and installed the new drivers. This ended my problem.
> - If your machine was not a Dell, then you should be able to find a driver
>package either on the NVIDIA website or on the website of your machine's manufacturer.
>Installing these driver packages should sove your problem, but I have kept the driver
>installer in case the problem returns, but it has been working fine for over a week
>now, I'm just being cautious.
> - A temporary solution would be to disable the service from starting with
>your computer by using the drop down menu directly above the 'service status' section
>of the service properties winow. This will solve your problem but will not fix the
>problem with the NVIDIA driver. I did this for a couple of days and didn't notice
>any difference in my graphics card's perforance so I'm not entirely sure what this
>service spends it's time doing. However the method I've described above solved my
>problem completely.
> - If this solved you problem then I'm glad to have helped, if not then
>I'm sorry I wasted your time and good luck finding a solution to your particular
>problem.
>
>
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