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Here is my "rig"
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP
Athlon XP 1800+
GeForce4 TI4200 w8x AGP
512MB DDR PC2700
20G 7200RPM -- OS
80G 7200RPM -- Storage
WinXP PRO w/ SP1
F11 bios (latest)
Im using the built in sound & NIc so the only card i have is the AGP..
Here is my question;
It seems that my process tab in task manager seems to attempt to delegate the resources constantly between system idle and the system process. Now i understand that the idle process should be what it is... but the system process hogs upto and including 60% of CPU time every 1 -2 seconds. Now i know you may be thinking im an idiot at this point, but this is a big concern.. Before you ask here is what is loading according to msconfig .. NOTHING... i know you'll say what services are running... well i open services.msc and disabled all but the essential processes. With the same results. I have stoped and started services while windows in running... i havent booted into safe mode to see if it acts the same.. Please help .. This is annoying.
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP
Athlon XP 1800+
GeForce4 TI4200 w8x AGP
512MB DDR PC2700
20G 7200RPM -- OS
80G 7200RPM -- Storage
WinXP PRO w/ SP1
F11 bios (latest)
Im using the built in sound & NIc so the only card i have is the AGP..
Here is my question;
It seems that my process tab in task manager seems to attempt to delegate the resources constantly between system idle and the system process. Now i understand that the idle process should be what it is... but the system process hogs upto and including 60% of CPU time every 1 -2 seconds. Now i know you may be thinking im an idiot at this point, but this is a big concern.. Before you ask here is what is loading according to msconfig .. NOTHING... i know you'll say what services are running... well i open services.msc and disabled all but the essential processes. With the same results. I have stoped and started services while windows in running... i havent booted into safe mode to see if it acts the same.. Please help .. This is annoying.
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Which of the processes is taking up the resources, or which processes?
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system is taking upto 60 % every second or two
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okay..this is freaking weird.. If i end the system process... then the problem stops... what process am i really stopping? I can still select system in the taskmanager... but i obviously stop the problem.. any ideas for the underlying cause?
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here is what i have figured out at this point...
Per CrazyOne i decided to dig deeper into the driver issue. I updated 4 in 1 .. i updated lan and audio.. but here is the catch i only use headphones so when i ended the sytem process i didnt realize i didnt have sound anymore because i wasnt wearing the headphones.. So i removed the audio drivers and let xp find and install the device.. same problem. So i am installing the latest DX and if that doesnt work... i will disable the onboard and go with a card..
Per CrazyOne i decided to dig deeper into the driver issue. I updated 4 in 1 .. i updated lan and audio.. but here is the catch i only use headphones so when i ended the sytem process i didnt realize i didnt have sound anymore because i wasnt wearing the headphones.. So i removed the audio drivers and let xp find and install the device.. same problem. So i am installing the latest DX and if that doesnt work... i will disable the onboard and go with a card..