bonestonne Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 ok, im a little afraid of this computer overheating right now, because i'm seeing a steady 100% CPU usage, and i dont know whats causing it.thats when it started to go down, but now its back at 100%those are the processes running at the time.its still way up there, any ideas as to whats causing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 When did this start happening? Have you made any changes to the system before this occurred? I would strongly suggest using Process Explorer (from sysinternals) to take a look at CPU usage above and beyond what Task Manager is showing, so we can at least learn what process is utilizing the most CPU time. We can go from there, but we need that information over the course of a few hours.Also, have you considered running autoruns (from sysinternals as well) to disable all non-Microsoft startup items, services, and processes, and ShellExView (from nirsoft.net) to disable all non-Microsoft explorer.exe shell hooks? I'd do this and reboot to see if the problem continues as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Save your images as GIF or PNG, JPG compresses badly on images with large contrasts and large areas of equal color.What processes in the task manager are consuming the majority of the CPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Go into msconfig and disable all start-up tasks and reboot. Still 100%? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 can't say for sure what made that happen. i put in my ATA/66 PCI card, had my DVD+RW drive going into it, and when i turned this thing on, it said it had some problem booting, so i turned it off, took out the drive and PCI card, then rebooted. it then gave me an error on reboot about an error with my PCI ethernet card. i didn't want to go through too much bs, so i let it go and continue booting normaly. it started correctly, but the processor usage was very heavy, lowest of 38%, highest 100% and sometimes it held a steady 100% for a few minutes.the problem ended, but i found three processes that used lots of CPU, and they are:svchost.exe - 14,848Kexplorer.exe - 17,008Kvsmon.exe - 17,328Kit took my computer a very long time to load things on boot when it happened..mostly the internet connections, and firewall. avast and audio started somewhat quickly.the only programs i had running were cpu-z, to moniter my clock speed and voltage so i'd see if it went too far over [and it did several times] and trillian, to talk to amanda [very long story] and then task manager to watch usage.here are the pics in links:http://www.freewebs.com/bonestonne/processorfritz.bmphttp://www.freewebs.com/bonestonne/processorfritz2.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Why are you posting large BMPs on the web? Why not uncompressed TIFFs while you're at it? Try saving to PNG or GIF for such pics, just like LLXX said already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 They are JPGs, but apparently didn't even try to compress them more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 can't exactly compress them without killing the quality...the object is to be able to see whats being showed...i posted the highest numbers that stood out in the list. everything else is normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 (edited) VSMON.EXE ... ZoneAlarm firewall?Try disabling that and see what happens.Also, I'm not going to even try downloading your huge BMPs. The problem is you used the wrong compression method; JPG is intended for images like photographs and the such. GIF and PNG are more suited to the type of pictures I assume those to be. Edited October 24, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Check whether or not your drives are running in DMA mode or PIO mode. If they're in PIO mode, set them to Ultra-DMA and reboot the computer. If that doesn't stick, then uninstall the IDE controllers and reboot again. PIO access can be quite CPU intensive and bring your system to a crawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 ok, for the sake of ending the argument, you try opening photoshop with 50% CPU usage without trying to kill the processor. i used paint. done with.i took the IDE controller out, becuase it said that it failed to boot. first time i had the problem, and i dont want it to happen again. the next time i got to comp USA, which will be in 2 or 3 weeks, i'll have them take a look at it, see if they can tell me anything extra because it seems to cause an error in booting.yesterday nothing was wrong, so im going to guess that it has something to do with the IDE controller, but no bets, i don't want it to happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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