Media Center killing cpu!!

kenkickr · Feb 25, 2009

For the last couple days here at the shop we have been working on a Acer laptop that is having a wonderful issue were Media Center is taxing the CPU @ 85-100% when ever media center is open!! Yesterday we updated Media Player to 11 since it had 10 on it, I hate 10; and did a tuneup(defrag, hijackthis, disk cleanup, remove temp and prefetch files) but no luck. The system is not infected since part of our diagnosis is a virus/spyware scan. Anyone have any ideas/recommendations!! WE NEED THEM!

Castiel · Feb 25, 2009

kenkickr said:
For the last couple days here at the shop we have been working on a Acer laptop that is having a wonderful issue were Media Center is taxing the CPU @ 85-100% when ever media center is open!! Yesterday we updated Media Player to 11 since it had 10 on it, I hate 10; and did a tuneup(defrag, hijackthis, disk cleanup, remove temp and prefetch files) but no luck. The system is not infected since part of our diagnosis is a virus/spyware scan. Anyone have any ideas/recommendations!! WE NEED THEM!

Any media center plug-ins installed and running?

erocker · Feb 25, 2009

It could just be data corruption on the O/S side of things. Have you tried doing a reinstall of Windows?

kenkickr · Feb 25, 2009

We reinstalled Windows for this guy about 2-2 1/2 weeks ago. He said the system was working fine and all of a sudden started doing this with Media Center. Yesterday when I was playing around with the system, I noticed with Firefox 3.0.6 open the cpu usage would get up there in the 60-80% every now and then so I was thinking it is some utility running in the background he installed but I couldn't find anything..and my eyes started to get tired after watching task manager for 10min.

kenkickr · Feb 25, 2009

The only extra thing WE installed is K-lite codecs package.

erocker · Feb 25, 2009

Uninstall Firefox and see if the problem persists.

mon74 · Feb 25, 2009

I recommend process explorer, it does find malware that you can't normally see, it's pretty handy.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Hope it works for you. :toast:

Steevo · Feb 26, 2009

Uninstall your codecs, and turn off *.avi previewer as well as the Haal media splitter if still installed. Then reinstall a good batch, either CCCP, or I have since started using the ones that come with my camera software, Nero, and a few other CD' I have laying around.

Wile E · Feb 26, 2009

Steevo said:
Uninstall your codecs, and turn off *.avi previewer as well as the Haal media splitter if still installed. Then reinstall a good batch, either CCCP, or I have since started using the ones that come with my camera software, Nero, and a few other CD' I have laying around.

I have to agree with Steevo. Uninstall K-Lite. It's a piece of misconfigured crap. CCCP is your best bet for a codec pack. At least it's properly configured and doesn't have conflicts out of the box. The downside is that you need to add real alt lite and QT Lite to play Real or Quicktime files.

MilkyWay · Feb 26, 2009

just get vlc video player plays most if not all codecs out of the bag no need for k lite or cccp although cccp is a good one

Wile E · Feb 26, 2009

MilkyWay said:
just get vlc video player plays most if not all codecs out of the bag no need for k lite or cccp although cccp is a good one

VLC doesn't help with Media Center.

kenkickr · Feb 27, 2009

Sorry I didn't get this updated, I do not have internet at home anymore(notice I don't post alot anymore) and was busy at work yesterday. Uninstalling firefox didn't change anything. Yesterday I found a utility from M$ called MediaCenterDiagnosticKit. Ran the kit and it found alot of issues with his Media Center. I think we are just going to tell the guy it needs an OS install since it failed 6 of the 9 tests.

kenkickr · Feb 27, 2009

mon74 said:
I recommend process explorer, it does find malware that you can't normally see, it's pretty handy.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Hope it works for you.

We scan w/ Avast and Malwarebytes, and nothing was found on the system.

3870x2 · Feb 27, 2009

grab finalcodecs 2008, only the best.

D007 · Mar 3, 2009

when you say media center I think nvidia media center.
with the icon on the bottom right..
you mean media player?

if it's media center.. just get ccleaner and go into startup programs.. and delete it..
don't let it start at all.
thats what I do..

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