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| System Name | Black Panther |
|---|---|
| Processor | i9 9900k |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO Wifi 1.0 |
| Cooling | NZXT Kraken X72 360mm |
| Memory | 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Palit RTX2080 Ti Dual 11GB DDR6 |
| Storage | Samsung EVO 970 500GB SSD M.2 & 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm |
| Display(s) | 32'' Gigabyte G32QC 2560x1440 165Hz |
| Case | NZXT H710i Black |
| Audio Device(s) | Razer Electra V2 & Z5500 Speakers |
| Power Supply | Seasonic Focus GX-850 Gold 80+ |
| Mouse | Some Corsair lost the box forgot the model |
| Keyboard | Motospeed |
| Software | Windows 10 |
My Dad's got this Airis Pragma N840 notebook:
1.6Ghz single core (sometypeof)Pentium IV
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
XP Home
Granted it's old and slow, but okay for his usage being browsing the net and using ms office.
A month ago I formatted his HDD and installed a fresh XP because he had Win32:Vitro virus and his computer's been running fast and fine since last week.
All of a sudden (so he says) it's become unbearably slow.
I saw for myself - it takes more than 5 minutes for the XP to show up. The bars while loading XP freeze a lot - I never seen that before. Then it takes another 5 minutes for the pc to be useable, as if it has to load some thousands of files.
When finally you can move the mouse around, it lags big time, like freezing for 2 seconds every time then jumping to the new position.
Going into Task Manager, in the Processes Tab it shows system idle process taking up 80% (which is normal).
But then if you go to the Performance Tab, CPU usage would be at 90%! This while staring at the desktop wallpaper with no applications running!
Which makes no sense... the CPU can either be 80% free or 90% in use... and it shouldn't be 90% in use while idle
I had little time to check everything out since I was at work, but I checked the processes and there's nothing strange. I made sure processes from all users were shown.
It's like there's an invisible process occupying 80% of the CPU and disguising itself as part of the system idle process making the pc appear as if only some 10% cpu was being used whereas in reality in the Performance graph you'd see 90% usage. (And it's truly 90% usage - proof is the noisy cpu fan).
Startup items are as I left them (selective through msconfig).
HDD is not clogged up (he's using the external ones to clog now...)
I tried disabling Windows Defender (program's hard on old systems...)
Scanned with Avast, Adaware, Spyware Doctor, Windows Defender, Advanced SystemCare Pro, ran CCcleaner, defragged, defragged registry.... and whatnot....
Dunno what else I can do... other than reformat?
(And other than being curious to find the cause)
Btw we share flashdrives to and fro my rigs and his laptop. I always scan it before using, never found anything, and both my desktop and laptop are running fine so far.
1.6Ghz single core (sometypeof)Pentium IV
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
XP Home
Granted it's old and slow, but okay for his usage being browsing the net and using ms office.
A month ago I formatted his HDD and installed a fresh XP because he had Win32:Vitro virus and his computer's been running fast and fine since last week.
All of a sudden (so he says) it's become unbearably slow.
I saw for myself - it takes more than 5 minutes for the XP to show up. The bars while loading XP freeze a lot - I never seen that before. Then it takes another 5 minutes for the pc to be useable, as if it has to load some thousands of files.
When finally you can move the mouse around, it lags big time, like freezing for 2 seconds every time then jumping to the new position.
Going into Task Manager, in the Processes Tab it shows system idle process taking up 80% (which is normal).
But then if you go to the Performance Tab, CPU usage would be at 90%! This while staring at the desktop wallpaper with no applications running!
Which makes no sense... the CPU can either be 80% free or 90% in use... and it shouldn't be 90% in use while idle
I had little time to check everything out since I was at work, but I checked the processes and there's nothing strange. I made sure processes from all users were shown.
It's like there's an invisible process occupying 80% of the CPU and disguising itself as part of the system idle process making the pc appear as if only some 10% cpu was being used whereas in reality in the Performance graph you'd see 90% usage. (And it's truly 90% usage - proof is the noisy cpu fan).
Startup items are as I left them (selective through msconfig).
HDD is not clogged up (he's using the external ones to clog now...)
I tried disabling Windows Defender (program's hard on old systems...)
Scanned with Avast, Adaware, Spyware Doctor, Windows Defender, Advanced SystemCare Pro, ran CCcleaner, defragged, defragged registry.... and whatnot....
Dunno what else I can do... other than reformat?
(And other than being curious to find the cause)
Btw we share flashdrives to and fro my rigs and his laptop. I always scan it before using, never found anything, and both my desktop and laptop are running fine so far.
i'm still suffering post-lan brain death.