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    1530 Processor Usage?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by muggsybb1, Mar 10, 2008.

  1. muggsybb1

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    Lately my T7700 processor in my 1530 has been running very high. While running nothing both cores are around 50% usage and occasionally one will jump up to 95-100% usage for about five seconds. I can understand it being this high while playing a game or some other processor hogging application, but not while its just ilde. I remember while even browsing the cores use to stay below 10%. Does anyone else have this problem or know what could be causing it?
     
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    Gfresh404 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the same processor and mine usually stays between 0% and 8% so yeah something is definitely wrong. How many processes do you have running?
     
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    it's at 78 processes
     
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    Rhodan NBR Expert of Nothing

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    Have a look at the processes in Task Manager to identify a culprit. Is this still an issue when you reboot?
     
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    would processes in task manager be under memory?
     
    muggsybb1, Mar 10, 2008
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    th3v0!d Notebook Geek

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    perhaps spyware or virus? or norton antivirus? LOL
     
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    Go to Processes tab in task manager and look for the one that's taking up all the CPU usage.
     
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    its an svchost.exe
     
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    I've seen svchost.exe use a lot of CPU cycles when deploying patches in a MS Domain environment. Probably not the case here...

    Most likely you have a spyware or virus.

    I you suggest a full scan from http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
     
    Rhodan, Mar 10, 2008
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