Fresh install of xp?

Gameruk · 9 Jul 2008 at 22:18

hi my m8 got a problem with his pc so he formated,since then his cpu usage is allways 100%. Ive took task manager up and went to process theres nothing there that is using 100% of his cpu,hes formated 2 times now and its still the same any idea`s what it could be and how to fix it?

Steve2000 · 9 Jul 2008 at 22:49

Do you know what the problem was before he formatted?

Gameruk · 9 Jul 2008 at 23:33

Ye it was the same problem it just started few days ago,but it was running fine he didnt change anything it just started doing as i said above 100% usage,so he formated hoping it would solve it but no its still there.

Mattus · 10 Jul 2008 at 00:58

Sounds like it might be a rogue driver or something. Does he have the latest official drivers installed for all his hardware? Did he install any new drivers before it started going slow?

Gameruk · 10 Jul 2008 at 01:01

As soon as windows is install even before he puts any driver on its goes right to 100%.

Cobertizo · 10 Jul 2008 at 01:05

When you are looking in task manager at the processes, there should be at least something showing high processor usage, even if it's System Idle Process. Are you sure there are no hints there?

Gameruk · 10 Jul 2008 at 01:14

No mate the system Idle is 99% the rest is on 0%,mines at the moment is 99% which is normal but my cpu usage 0% his 100%.

bledd · 10 Jul 2008 at 09:48

tick 'show processes from all users'

probably windows update or av scanner