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    M14x R2 on desktop idle and the fan just decides to come on and cpu usage goes from 0% to 20-25%

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Colpolite, Oct 12, 2012.

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    Hey guys i have the m14x r2 with the 3610qm, everything is updated and stable but I noticed something every few minutes or so, the fans will fire up to about med rpm and the cpu usage via task manager will go from low 0-5% to around 20-25% cpu usage and while i have hwinfo32 running, the cpu temps goes from average 48c-54c to 60-65c and this is without doing anything just looking at the desktop while idle and no programs or applications running besides the windows task manager and hwinfo32.

    What could be possibly causing the cpu cores to go from early 50c to 60+ and cpu usage from 0-5% to 20-25% then the fan starts revving up. What could possibly cause this? Maybe a program or .exe or what?

    BTW no anti-virus and just updated all windows drivers and all is stable, could it possibly caused by one of the alienware or dell drivers preinstalled from the factory because i see around 85-90+ processes running on the task manager.

    Will a clean install solve this?
     
    Colpolite, Oct 12, 2012
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