So here is the deal. I have an Acer Aspire 5100 AMD 62x dualcore tk-53 i think its at like 1.7ghz, it came with Vista, I put XP back on it, came with 1gb of ram I upgraded to 4gb hoping it would run fine. To get to the point. When I first got the computer it ran great, however now sometime with it has brought it to this annoying spike in my CPU. I've tried everything I could to keep it down, but it spikes over 100% randomly and at the worst times. I've ran Process Explorer and watched when it spiked, nothing unusual. I've watched my task manager, nothing unusual. I've defraged, ran virus scans, disabled my virus protection, uninstalled it, reinstalled it, reformated, restarted, any and everything I could. I bought a stand for the laptop and a fan so it doesnt overheat. I've check my power settings, my page file remains the same around 555 on average even during the spikes. I'm going completely insane trying to track this problem down, so if anyone could give me any type of lead, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
(Sorry for the novel of a post)
-Thanks
I forgot to mention, I've got SP2, DX 9.0c and all my latest drivers. I've even rolled back and still have the same issue. I feel like I'm going to have to scrap this laptop soon...
(Sorry for the novel of a post)
-Thanks
I forgot to mention, I've got SP2, DX 9.0c and all my latest drivers. I've even rolled back and still have the same issue. I feel like I'm going to have to scrap this laptop soon...







