I honestly don't know if it did completely, but it did help. I'm going to post how the same issue just happened again today. - Since I've installed the driver, it has calmed down considerably, but I lost so much work time I did not want to test it until I had time. - I just did a Windows upgrade and it locked my laptop at 100% for about an hour or so after the intsall and reboot. It has finally calmed down. - I'm also downloading another updated NVIDIA driver and will see if that makes a difference. If there are still issues, I will post the files here for your review again. In my opinion it is the driver, but full testing will be done to confirm that in a couple days. - t