Extremely High idle CPU Usage Windows 8.1

mattyjim123 · 28 Apr 2014 at 20:43

I need wee bit of help guys..

Just recently I've noticed my idle CPU usage to be 60-100% all the time.

In task manager, none of my processes really stand out as the culprit, and under the users tab, my user isn't using nearly as much as the total CPU usage. :confused:

What do I do?

I'm the only user on the computer.
Windows 8.1
i5-3570k

Thanks for any help.

mattyjim123 · 28 Apr 2014 at 20:59

Just did a scan with Avast free, and nothing came up, any other programs that might show something?

mattyjim123 · 28 Apr 2014 at 21:05

Will give that a quick scan

mattyjim123 · 28 Apr 2014 at 22:21

Ok, I blue screened and after a lot of driver issues etc etc, I just decided to do a complete fresh install of windows 8. Probably wont be updating to 8.1.

Thanks for the help anyway

CPU idle is at 3% now by the way