pc not working properly at all random cpu spikes

KompuKare said:
Well, ok that is a lot money. While I'm sure it can be resolved, if you had the machine pre-built I say send it back.

But like I initially said: high-end top of the range machine is no guarantee of it working perfectly. It is a PC after all. If you have already re-installed windows (rather than doing a restore or similar) then you've eliminated some of the possibilities.

If you want to continue trying to fix it yourself, I'd say go into the BIOS and disable all non essential devices (if your motherboard has PS/2 and you have PS/2 keyboard & mouse I'd disable USB too).

But process explorer really is the best way to diagnose these kind of things but it requires knowledge and patience.
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http://imageshack.us/a/img715/989/capturelsc.png

better pic i don't know a lot about pc has u probably can tell i know a bit but not to much. sending it back then i have to pay for postage this is a joke i drove 70 ****ing mile to pick this up and it cost me £50 in fuel i expect it to work
 
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Post on the support forum. They'll sort you out directly. Btw, that pick is as bad as the others. People don't need to see the spikes, but they do need to see the Task Manager tab to see what is running. Just that for the moment.

Could be something loose in the case following the drive back from overclockers; but you're still best contacting OC directly and let them talk you through first pass trouble shooting.

Just checking. OC built the system and installed the OS. Did they also do all the updates for Windows? Did they install and configure any anti-virus and/or firewall? Have you connected the system to the Internet / network?
 
pcAnywhere said:
Post on the support forum. They'll sort you out directly. Btw, that pick is as bad as the others. People don't need to see the spikes, but they do need to see the Task Manager tab to see what is running. Just that for the moment.

Could be something loose in the case following the drive back from overclockers; but you're still best contacting OC directly and let them talk you through first pass trouble shooting.

Just checking. OC built the system and installed the OS. Did they also do all the updates for Windows? Did they install and configure any anti-virus and/or firewall? Have you connected the system to the Internet / network?
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i contacted them on Saturday and did nog get a chance to recall them before they closed this is what i got told try with 1 monitor if that don't work ring us back. ye they did all the updates they did not install any av and i will get a pic of task manager now imageshack is down so need to wait for it to come back on
 
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magner said:
http://imageshack.us/a/img715/989/capturelsc.png

better pic i don't know a lot about pc has u probably can tell i know a bit but not to much. sending it back then i have to pay for postage this is a joke i drove 70 ****ing mile to pick this up and it cost me £50 in fuel i expect it to work
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That picture still doesn't tell us a lot aside that something is spiking. You'd really have to show us which task is spiking.

Hm, 70 miles @ £50 fuel. Even if that's 70 each way, that's around 225KM using 36 litres, which is 16 litres per 100KM or 15 mpg. Is this a tank?
 
KompuKare said:
That picture still doesn't tell us a lot aside that something is spiking. You'd really have to show us which task is spiking.

Hm, 70 miles @ £50 fuel. Even if that's 70 each way, that's around 225KM using 36 litres, which is 16 litres per 100KM or 15 mpg. Is this a tank?
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no 40 sorry and barely made it back and it was a range rover not a tank http://imageshack.us/a/img155/8572/capture1lk.png
 
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The spikes could be general background programs running.

As others have mentioned post in the customer section (you my of already done this, not read the thread in full :))

One thing you could try is running mem test, link below:

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

Also what are your temps like?
 
Ok, that is the kind of screenshot which might get us somewhere. But it's far to blurry. Really you'd need to have Taskman full screen. Just make it large enough to see the tasks, sort by CPU usage and use ATL-PrtSc to just capture the current window and save that.

But you really should be using Process Explorer which you can get from
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
since even the Windows 7 TaskMan is pretty useless.
 
Print screen - Paint - make it the size of your monitor. That way we can see it.

Also call up overclockers and try to talk to 5UB, hes brilliant with customer service ;)

They should pay all the shipping really if its faulty straight after delivery.
 
Mei said:
still hard to read but looks like mcafee is running could be that
id just do a clean install takes like 20mins
then install some software help u test, coretemp, afterburner, benchmarks etc

works out quicker than hunting thru and uninstalling crap
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i have already done a clean install i only installed mcafee when installing google chrome and even before i installed them it was still spiking i did clean install got all drivers and its still spiking
 
Bacon? said:
Print screen - Paint - make it the size of your monitor. That way we can see it.

Also call up overclockers and try to talk to 5UB, hes brilliant with customer service ;)

They should pay all the shipping really if its faulty straight after delivery.
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im hoping it can be solved over the phone tbh
 
magner said:
i have already done a clean install i only installed mcafee when installing google chrome and even before i installed them it was still spiking i did clean install got all drivers and its still spiking
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installing some the apps i said to help look whats going on will help, if even just to check on the temps like RJC suggested on last page

as its all watercooled i should think its pretty important to check nothing is wrong there
 
magner said:
http://imageshack.us/a/img20/411/capture3teg.png is this one good enough?
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Well that's better, but I can still not read it properly. Anyway, from that it looks like (atpit*) drivers were not an issue since hardware interrupts were 1.2% or so.

ATPIT: At That Point In Time, since hardware interrupts will hardly spike all the time. What I'd do is make Process Explorer smaller (so we can read the screenshots) and place taskman beside it. Watch for spikes on the graph and see if you can at the point of a spike see which task spikes at that time.

In process explorer you can also get a CPU graph (and IO and RAM but those are not interest to us atm) for each task.

If your suspect is a svchost it will be harder to trace since that means it's a service which is the cause (svchost = service host).

But try these thing and go from there
 
KompuKare said:
Well that's better, but I can still not read it properly. Anyway, from that it looks like (atpit*) drivers were not an issue since hardware interrupts were 1.2% or so.

ATPIT: At That Point In Time, since hardware interrupts will hardly spike all the time. What I'd do is make Process Explorer smaller (so we can read the screenshots) and place taskman beside it. Watch for spikes on the graph and see if you can at the point of a spike see which task spikes at that time.

In process explorer you can also get a CPU graph (and IO and RAM but those are not interest to us atm) for each task.

If your suspect is a svchost it will be harder to trace since that means it's a service which is the cause (svchost = service host).

But try these thing and go from there
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don't know why its so blury but is this what u mean heres another http://imageshack.us/a/img820/3429/123jqa.png if u press ctrl and use your scroll reel to zoom in u can see it better u probs know that
 
It's blurry because PNG like JPG looses info. If you're going to use Paint, save is as BMP - you should be fine to set it down to 16 colours to since we're not interested in colours.
 
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