High CPU Usage

hv43082 · Nov 22, 2006, 05:59 AM

I have recently built this system with fresh format and installation. Now after video encoding or gaming (1hr or more), the CPU usage jumped to mid 40% and many system functions would stop responding. Currently running softwares also stop responding along with on/off/restart/standby. I've read from various forums that this is due to the dual core not being able to communicate with each other and leads to continuous loops. Some said that it was due to motherboard and ram incompatibility. Please look at my system spec if you want to know it in detailed. I checked with Window support and I was supposed to insert "/usepmtimer" to the boot.ini file. However, that did not help. This system has no virus or spywares. I checked it with Trendmicro. If anyone knows something, please share your thought and knowledge. Thanks.

hat · Nov 22, 2006, 06:17 AM

You should post a pic of your task manager on the process tab... hit contol + alt + delete to bring up the task maneger. Bring task manager fullscreen. Hit pring screen. Go into paint or something and press control + v and the snapshot you took of the task manager will come sp. Save it to your hard drive and upload it here. From there we will study your processes and try to identify some possible causes of high CPU useage. For example Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus are famous for being real resource hogs...

hv43082 · Nov 22, 2006, 11:11 AM

Here they are.

hv43082 · Nov 22, 2006, 11:14 AM

Even at 40% usage, everything that's already opened do not respond (ie Paint, PowerPoint, Word, DVDShrink, etc.). I can open new application but they all eventually do not respond.

pt · Nov 22, 2006, 11:22 AM

you didn't need to post a pic of a camera, a simple print screen would do it
i tought video encoding fully utilized 2 cores :s

Casheti · Nov 22, 2006, 12:09 PM

Print Screen, Open Paint, Ctrl + V, Save As "Taskmanager", Upload to TPU.

EDIT: Never mind, just saw you can't open paint...sorry lol.

Your paint, powerpoint and word are using LOADS of memory...WTF!!

hv43082 · Nov 22, 2006, 09:25 PM

It's not just paint, pp, and word but everything else that I opened up will eventually stop responding.

Pt
Video encoding has never given me problem. I was always able to encode movie while playing game even with the AMD X2 3800 system. I could even Alt+Tab and everything would work just fine. Now every time I opened up two applications, they would stop responding after a while.

pt · Nov 22, 2006, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hv43082

It's not just paint, pp, and word but everything else that I opened up will eventually stop responding.

Pt
Video encoding has never given me problem. I was always able to encode movie while playing game even with the AMD X2 3800 system. I could even Alt+Tab and everything would work just fine. Now every time I opened up two applications, they would stop responding after a while.

have you tried formating windows?

hv43082 · Nov 23, 2006, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pt

have you tried formating windows?

This comp was formatted a few weeks ago. NO download of any kind since.

lemonadesoda · Nov 23, 2006, 02:08 AM

Get some sysinternals utilities to get closer to the problem. (now part of MS).

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx

and

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx

Report back with screenies.

Nov 22, 2006, 05:59 AM	#1
hv43082 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Orange County, CA and Miami, FL Posts: 1,237 (0.51/day) Thanks: 42 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts System Specs	High CPU Usage I have recently built this system with fresh format and installation. Now after video encoding or gaming (1hr or more), the CPU usage jumped to mid 40% and many system functions would stop responding. Currently running softwares also stop responding along with on/off/restart/standby. I've read from various forums that this is due to the dual core not being able to communicate with each other and leads to continuous loops. Some said that it was due to motherboard and ram incompatibility. Please look at my system spec if you want to know it in detailed. I checked with Window support and I was supposed to insert "/usepmtimer" to the boot.ini file. However, that did not help. This system has no virus or spywares. I checked it with Trendmicro. If anyone knows something, please share your thought and knowledge. Thanks.

System Name:	Desktop / MacBook Air 13 / The new ipad
Processor:	Intel Core i5 2500K
Motherboard:	Asus P8P67 Pro
Cooling:	Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	Samsung 30nm 4x4 GB DDR3-1866
Video Card:	670 GTX x 2
Hard Disk:	OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD + 12TB storage
Optical Drive:	LiteOn Light Scribe burner
CRT/LCD Model:	3 x Crossover 27Q LED-P 7680x1440
Case:	Lian Li PC-80NB
Sound Card:	Asus Xonar DX + Logitech Z5500 + Ultrasone Pro 650
PSU:	Corsair AX1200
Software:	Window 7 Ultimate x64

System Name:	Starlifter // Dragonfly
Processor:	(lapped) i7 920 4GHz 1.3v // 1090T 3.6GHz 1.3v
Motherboard:	Asus Rampage III // Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
Cooling:	(lapped) Corsair H70 // (lapped) TT Big Typhoon
Memory:	3x2GB DDR3 1600 10-10-10-30-128-1T 1.5v // 2x2GB DDR3 1333 9-9-9-24-1T 1.5v
Video Card:	HIS Radeon 5870 // BFG Maxcore 55 GTX260
Hard Disk:	Plextor M5S 128GB + 512GB OCZ Agility 4 + 2TB WD20EARS // WDC Black 500GB
Optical Drive:	SATA DVD-RW // IDE CD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell/Alienware AW2310 + 19" HDTV // 19" HDTV
Case:	Antec SOHO 1030B // some really old white case... but it's decent
Sound Card:	Creative X-Fi Fatality Professional // onboard (disabled)
PSU:	Antec NeoHe 550W // Corsair CX600w
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium x64 // Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Benchmarks:	zunn zunnzunn zunn zunn

Nov 22, 2006, 11:11 AM	#3
hv43082 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Orange County, CA and Miami, FL Posts: 1,237 (0.51/day) Thanks: 42 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts System Specs	Here they are. Attached Thumbnails

System Name:	Desktop / MacBook Air 13 / The new ipad
Processor:	Intel Core i5 2500K
Motherboard:	Asus P8P67 Pro
Cooling:	Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	Samsung 30nm 4x4 GB DDR3-1866
Video Card:	670 GTX x 2
Hard Disk:	OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD + 12TB storage
Optical Drive:	LiteOn Light Scribe burner
CRT/LCD Model:	3 x Crossover 27Q LED-P 7680x1440
Case:	Lian Li PC-80NB
Sound Card:	Asus Xonar DX + Logitech Z5500 + Ultrasone Pro 650
PSU:	Corsair AX1200
Software:	Window 7 Ultimate x64

Nov 22, 2006, 06:17 AM	#2
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.15/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	You should post a pic of your task manager on the process tab... hit contol + alt + delete to bring up the task maneger. Bring task manager fullscreen. Hit pring screen. Go into paint or something and press control + v and the snapshot you took of the task manager will come sp. Save it to your hard drive and upload it here. From there we will study your processes and try to identify some possible causes of high CPU useage. For example Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus are famous for being real resource hogs...

Nov 22, 2006, 11:14 AM	#4
hv43082 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Orange County, CA and Miami, FL Posts: 1,237 (0.51/day) Thanks: 42 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts System Specs	Even at 40% usage, everything that's already opened do not respond (ie Paint, PowerPoint, Word, DVDShrink, etc.). I can open new application but they all eventually do not respond. Attached Thumbnails

Nov 22, 2006, 11:22 AM	#5
pt not a suicide-bomber Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portugal Posts: 5,877 (2.23/day) Thanks: 106 Thanked 219 Times in 193 Posts System Specs	you didn't need to post a pic of a camera, a simple print screen would do it i tought video encoding fully utilized 2 cores :s __________________ [img disabled]http://apax.eveonlinekb.com/?a=sig&i=39051&s=zealot[/img]

Processor:	AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (Trinidad)
Motherboard:	ASUS F3Ka (ATI RS690M)
Cooling:	stock
Memory:	Nanya 2x1GB ddr2 667@5-5-5-15-2T
Video Card:	ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 512MB DDR2@ 580mhz/486mhz
Hard Disk:	160GB on laptop+250GB external
Optical Drive:	DVD RW
CRT/LCD Model:	ASUS 15.4
Case:	Asus Laptop F3Ka chassis
Sound Card:	on-board
PSU:	1:30minutes battery
Software:	"genui xp", 'cause i hated vista

Nov 22, 2006, 12:09 PM	#6
Casheti Banned Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,042 (1.18/day) Thanks: 92 Thanked 31 Times in 30 Posts System Specs	Print Screen, Open Paint, Ctrl + V, Save As "Taskmanager", Upload to TPU. EDIT: Never mind, just saw you can't open paint...sorry lol. Your paint, powerpoint and word are using LOADS of memory...WTF!!

Nov 22, 2006, 09:25 PM	#7
hv43082 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Orange County, CA and Miami, FL Posts: 1,237 (0.51/day) Thanks: 42 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts System Specs	It's not just paint, pp, and word but everything else that I opened up will eventually stop responding. Pt Video encoding has never given me problem. I was always able to encode movie while playing game even with the AMD X2 3800 system. I could even Alt+Tab and everything would work just fine. Now every time I opened up two applications, they would stop responding after a while.

Nov 23, 2006, 02:08 AM	#10
lemonadesoda Eligible for custom title Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,337 (2.17/day) Thanks: 749 Thanked 960 Times in 710 Posts System Specs	Get some sysinternals utilities to get closer to the problem. (now part of MS). http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx Report back with screenies.

System Name:	ICE-QUAD // ICE-CRUNCH
Processor:	Q6600 // 2x Xeon 5472
Memory:	2GB DDR // 8GB FB-DIMM
Video Card:	HD3850-AGP // FireGL 3400
CRT/LCD Model:	2 x Samsung 204Ts = 3200x1200
Sound Card:	Audigy 2
Software:	Windows Server 2003 R2 as a Workstation

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