dual core problem 1 core maxed out

[james_earl]

Recently one of the cores on my opteron 175 has been running at full usage despite no visible load on the core from task manager. i have tried shutting everything down to just essential services to no avail. it happens from boot up and it will also happen randomly having booted up normally. is it likely to be a software issue or is one core borked?

 

[james_earl]

yeah if i have to i will but i thought id see if anyone had experienced it before.

 

[james_earl]

no its nothing like that because performance is effected massively. i cant game when the core is doing this. its definitely doing what it looks like its doing.

 

[james_earl]

cheers for the link. tried it and it was showing around 46 for hadware interrupts and 12 for dpc. rebooted and now its fairly normal again, but for how long i have no idea.

 

[james_earl]

its off airliners.net its a 15 squadron gr4 if you need to search for it

 

[james_earl]

thanks for all the help guys. it was a windows problem. corrupted itself beyond redemption no doubt but its all working fine again now.