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    CPU stuck at 100%?!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by chimp_spanner, Sep 8, 2004.

  1. chimp_spanner

    chimp_spanner Notebook Enthusiast

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    K, using Aspire 2012WLMi, as I've mentioned many a time before.

    Okay, turned on, noticed my task tray items were taking forever to appear. Thought nothing of it. Then realised that My Computer was acting sluggish. Window redraw was appaulingly slow. Right mousing anywhere took like 15 seconds before anything showed up. Went to task manager and looked at the performance tab, and the CPU was stuck at 100%!! Anything like this ever happened to you guys? One off? Or a sign of (bad) things to come?

    It seems to be okay. Did 3 restarts, didnt fix it. Powered down completely and its okay...I think. Maybe like..a bad instruction got the processor caught in some sort of loop..is this even possible?



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    chimp_spanner, Sep 8, 2004
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    Yeah, this can happen. There should be a tab that shows you the processes (programs) running on your computer as well as the percentage of CPU instruction time it is using. If there is one that is taking up a good percentage of the CPU instruction time, then this is what is slowing your computer down. You might have downloaded spyware or have some piece of crap software running in the background that could be causing this. KILL IT. End the process and find out what program it is and remove it! Hope this helps.

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