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50% CPU load while idling....WTF?!?!?!

post #1 of 10
4/4/07 at 8:16pm
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Last night i left my computer on and went to bed. This morning i woke up to see my CPU running at 60 degrees C and running at 50%. Ive tried a lot of things but it just keeps happening. When i start the computer its fine but after about a half hour the CPU load jumps to 50%. It sux. Ill include my setup below just in case it matters:

My setup:
Intel T2500
Dell Inspiron 9400
7900GSX 600/1300
1GB DDR4200
120GB 5400

Any help would be appreciated
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post #2 of 10
4/4/07 at 8:19pm
is this a clean install or still have the Dell Bloatware installed?

do you scan for any spyware?

What process is using the CPU ?

Try Spybot, and Adware if you don't
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post #3 of 10
4/4/07 at 8:32pm
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Yeah, i scan constantly. The process that is doing it is svchost...i think. I did a clean install recently because it was doing it before but now it is doing it again.
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post #4 of 10
4/5/07 at 12:18am
Ahh yeah, svchost....pain. Most likely it's a driver issue. I think you have to go into your services running on the computer and disable the nvidia driver program. Sorry I can't provide further detail but I'm out in the middle of texas working with a 30kbps internet connection without my lappy


Someone else help here please!
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post #5 of 10
4/5/07 at 12:38am
First try this.

Click Start - Run, then type in services.msc and hit enter.

Look through the list and find the one named "NVIDIA Display Driver Service" and double click it to open it.

Click Stop to stop the service. Then from the drop down menu above, select Disabled so it won't start back up on startup.

Reboot the computer and see if you are still having the problem.

If that doesn't work, try getting all updates possible for the OS. I heard that M$ released a patch sometime that fixed a svchost.exe problem.
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post #6 of 10
4/5/07 at 2:48pm
svchost is what hosts pretty much all the services on a system. Considering there are dozens and dozens and dozens of them running at a time, the fact that svchost is using lots of CPU time tells you absolutely nothing about what is at fault.

Vista, at least, will tell you easily which services are running inside of which svchost instance, which can be useful for tracking it down.

Under windows xp, I think the free program ProcessExplorer can also do that.

XP also has a built-in command that can do this. Open a command prompt and type:

tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"

That will list all the svchost processes and which services they run. That can be useful in trying to figure things out.
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post #7 of 10
4/6/07 at 3:58pm
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I disabled the NVIDIA display driver device and it stopped. But now RUNDLL32.exe is doing it. Any idea what the problem is?
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post #8 of 10
4/6/07 at 6:54pm
well you might have a hidden 3rd party SETI app running in the background. run hijack hhis and post your results on here
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post #9 of 10
4/7/07 at 3:20am
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Originally Posted by Taur
I disabled the NVIDIA display driver device and it stopped. But now RUNDLL32.exe is doing it. Any idea what the problem is?
Are you sure you have all (even optional) updates installed?

If so, I also suggest running Hijackthis.
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post #10 of 10
4/7/07 at 4:36am
try my thread i have the same problem but no one has really worked it out...
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread194151.html
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