hey again, thanks for the help earlier. unfortunately the driver update did no difference. i did however read somewhere to look if i could see "tunnel adapters for ISATAP, 6to4, or Teredo" when running ipconfig /all, which i tried, the odd thing was that instead of a few lines with the usual ipconfig stuff i got a long list of (roughly translated): Tunnel connection: Connection to local network* 1 State: Disconnected Connection specific DNS-suffix: ___ (as in nothing) Tunnel connection: Connection to local network* 2 State: Disconnected Connection specific DNS-suffix: ___ (except for the last one where its said LAN) and so on until 680ish. im guessing that this isnt good and could be whats draining the cpu, right? Any advice on what this means or how to reduce or remove these tunnel connections? Thanks