flashstorm Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Hey everyone. New here, I have a quick question. Every second, the cpu spikes from 0-3% to 40+%, than back down, while idle. This causes my music to lag every second, thus being very annoying. The kicker is that no process seems to be responsable, the Task Manager tells me that it's Idle process is usually 85-99%, not <60 like the Performance graph is telling me. See, I'll show you an example of the performance graphI used to have this problem, but I found out that Norton's Systemworks was the problem and uninstalled it (it was expired and I'm cheap anyway). It stopped for a while, and now it's doing again. Anyone have any experience with this? And ideas?
cluberti Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 The first thing you should always try is to boot into safe mode and see if the problem occurs. Also, this is almost always caused by firewall software or antivirus software, so uninstalling those and checking is also a very good idea.
flashstorm Posted July 31, 2007 Author Posted July 31, 2007 The first thing you should always try is to boot into safe mode and see if the problem occurs. Also, this is almost always caused by firewall software or antivirus software, so uninstalling those and checking is also a very good idea.Well, I tried booting into safemode, and the problem still occurs there. I havn't uninstalled any firewalls or AV yet, I'll try that in a bit.
cluberti Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Well, I tried booting into safemode, and the problem still occurs there. I havn't uninstalled any firewalls or AV yet, I'll try that in a bit.I ask because almost all user-mode components and drivers do not load in safe mode, only kernel-mode drivers (they always load with the kernel). So, if the problem still happens in safe mode, you can be fairly certain that it is either a hardware issue (not likely), or a kernel-mode driver doing this. Since the biggest source of kernel-mode drivers are antivirus, firewall, and antispyware applications (followed closely by backup and virtual CD-ROM software), and most people are running at least one of these types of apps on their box, removal is the next logical step to see what happens (remember that disabling the service or the user-mode tray icon that the kernel mode driver relies on doesn't disable the kernel-mode driver, just the user-mode application's ability to interact with it - which can even be worse!).
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