Re: High CPU Usage

We have pretty much the same problem.

If you type in 9550 high cpu into google you will find a surprising
amount of results.

Have you tried removing the card (if it is an AGP card) and seeing if
it runs any better?

We have a machine which has onboard video and we added a 9550 to allow
dual head and it started running like a dog (CPU usage goes from 0-70%
for no good reason and then up to around 100% when you try to do
anything including small programs like windows explorer.

But if you take the card out, it runs fine.

The strange part is, other machines have this exact same card, but run
fine.

They have different motherboards though.

The motherboard in this example is a P4 Intel board - the D865GBF


Alec S. wrote:
"Win" <Win@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5D2E1CC5-D8B9-40C1-8360-8351612B3326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Based on your suggestions Alec I temporarily disabled McAfee anti-spam; only
IE is loaded, and when doing nothing, CPU usage ranges from 8-16% -- task
manager is 6-8%

Makes sense, a virus scanner has to do a lot of scanning to check for all the thousands of viruses out there, so there's always
going to be a delay when running a program, which can sometimes be short and sometimes really long depending on the app.


When I clicked the reply button, total CPU went to 100% and IE topped the
list -- it took about 10 sec for the reply screen to load ( I had already
allowed popups for this site)

Ten seconds is still a little long. If you don't have too many add-ons installed, it should run in under five. Use a program like
BHODemon or something to see what browser extensions are installed, perhaps there's one or more that are causing it to take too
long.


Next, I launched Firefox -- total cpu went to 100, Firefox at the top, took
about 6 sec to load the Google home page.

Like with IE, FireFox should start pretty quickly from a default installation, but if you've got a lot of extensions, it can take a
while-occasionally, by the time the FireFox window shows up, I've forgotten that I've launched it. :)


Thanks for yor help!

No problem.


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