CPU Usage 100%

Brendan_9

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Mar 22, 2016
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When I first got my computer it was a little laggy nothing too crazy, I noticed when my computer was freezing my cpu usage is jumping up to 100% and everything freezes and this happens when im doing something as simple as watching a video on youtube or a movie in vlc media player this lead me to believe it was a cpu issue but it wasn't unbearable so I stuck with it until I could find a permanent fix. Then after about 6 months it started showing a screen when I turned it on that said "Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, or any other key to continue" and the screen wouldn't change even if you tried to press a key, you'd then have to restart the computer a second time for it to start normally. However 1 month later my computer won't turn on at all it just keeps looping that screen, the restart method no longer works. I looked up the error but there's no sure fire answer, some say it's a harddrive problem but that wouldn't make sense because I can read my harddrive on my laptop using a harddrive reader so it isn't corrupt, this got me thinking it's the harddrive reader in my computer. But I dont know because I changed ports for my harddrive and it worked for about 2 weeks then it went back to looping the screen there is one more port I can try but I think the same thing will happen. This problem started happening pretty soon after I got my brand new desktop so I know it's not a virus etc. I'm thinking it's a hardware malfunction either in the CPU or some component having to do with the harddrive and if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it that would be amazing. I don't want to have to buy an entire brand new computer.

The company I bought it from has horrible customer service, I've tried getting help but it's usually a 2 hour call that results in nothing but lost time, so I've come here for possibly alternative methods.
 
Solution
The build is good, except we don't know the PSU and the HDD, the most probable cause is the HDD, since windows is installed on it, next is MOBO, if this is a hardware problem anyway.
If it's software, you want to try to reset your BIOS settings and any overclock you might have made.
And also try disabling EFI boot and see if that helps.
And I think it's starting up in SHELL.
Try typing "exit", without the quotation marks, it may help you get to windows.
Sorry about that I completely forgot.

CPU:Intel® Core™ i7-4790 3.60 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150

HDD:1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)

MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3)

MOTHERBOARD:MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX w/ GIGABit LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1x M.2, 6x SATA 6GB/s (All Venom OC Certified)

POWERSUPPLY:600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready

VIDEO:AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Single Card)

OS originally was windows 8.1, but I upgraded to windows 10 thinking it would fix the problem but it didn't fix it.

That should be everything if I left anything out let me know.
 
I think I used the utility once and it said the harddrive was running fine so I figured that it wasn't the harddrive. But I'm not sure if it tests the component to read the harddrive. Also wondering if it could be the motherboard. I didn't use a ssd because at the time the hdd I bought was on sale.
 
The build is good, except we don't know the PSU and the HDD, the most probable cause is the HDD, since windows is installed on it, next is MOBO, if this is a hardware problem anyway.
If it's software, you want to try to reset your BIOS settings and any overclock you might have made.
And also try disabling EFI boot and see if that helps.
And I think it's starting up in SHELL.
Try typing "exit", without the quotation marks, it may help you get to windows.
 
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