I finished building a comp for my sis last week. After booting to the XP desktop, CTRL-alt_del, performance tab. The processor is running @ 70-90%. When you try to open a program such as media player the comp reacts slowly. This is built on a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 board with an AMD Athlon 64 3500 cpu, 1GB dual channel ddr400 memory, nvidia based pcie video card 512mb.
Any ideas? Maybe a bad MB? Does anyone know of a free board diagnostic program and where to find it?
2007-01-13 06:14:55 · 8 answers · asked by Tommy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
your computer is a dell.if it is then you got robbed. you should have gotten a hp
2007-01-13 06:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree with D Mc C but, would like to give you some more detail.
Even with NO applications running, you could be eating almost all your CPU resources. Do the Ctrl-Alt-Del to get the task manager...but, this time look under the " processes " tab......under the CPU column, most of the processes will be using 00 % of your CPU...so, look for the big offenders, then, you can " GOOGLE " whatever process that is, to find out EXACTLY what it is....
for instance: I found out the when my husband leaves a certain game up....not running, but only at the title screen....it eats between 45 - 55 % of my CPU...while doing absolutely nothing !!!!
so, I always remind him to close the window when he's finished......then, the usage goes down to 4-5 % ( and I have 66 processes in the tab at most times....often more.
2007-01-13 14:31:10 · answer #2 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There must be a hidden process running. Most likely a virus. They usually try to hide themselves from the system. Run a virus scan.
With Ctrl-Alt-Del you can check the cpu usage that the running system processes are using.
When the computer is just sitting there with no open programs , the "System Idle Process" should be using 90+ percent of the cpu time.
2007-01-13 14:22:23 · answer #3 · answered by tedead 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
open ctrl-alt-del and go to proccesses and see what is using the power up, then look on google to see an explanaition
2007-01-13 14:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by D McC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Click on link below. It will take you to pcpitstop.com. They are really good at diagnosing problems and stuff.
2007-01-13 14:29:09 · answer #5 · answered by Rainy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can try this, this company's stuff has been good for me although this program I've never used.
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html
2007-01-13 14:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you have a virous in ur PC my frind
2007-01-13 14:20:00 · answer #7 · answered by Black Angel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
restart the computer again then install internet:)
2007-01-13 14:23:24 · answer #8 · answered by dez wez 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋