Question High CPU usage with new SSD

[wasshup]

Hi,
I have Dell Latitude e6430. Yesterday i upgraded it with kingston 240 GB SSD, after that the CPU usage is very high. When i swith back to old hdd everything is normal. So i thought that is wrong ssd, i have one more (same model). After installing system once more problem still occurs. Can it be CPU problem with new disk or some HW problem ?

Thank you.

 

[boju]

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Noteb...Ssd-causes-high-cpu-usage/m-p/6455199#M431409

Maybe?

 

[wasshup]

Thanks for the reply. I found this before but I don't have the SSD instead of CD ROM i put it directly to SSD slot. But few minutes ago i found that the laptop has very old BIOS so i downloaded the new update to try out.

 

[wsmith198729]

You can try to delete letter of the of the disk, sometimes it works

 

[boju]

Let us know how you go

Might've seen this one but has no answers.

https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/SSD-upgrade-CPU-usage-high/td-p/6052879

Did you reinstall windows or clone?

 

[wasshup]

Sure I'll let you know. Now I'm installing some autodesk products and cpu is going form 60 to 100 % nothing else running. It was clean install (i have sccm imge deployment and i know that this image is working fine on all other machines with same HW)

 

[wasshup]

https://imgur.com/a/9GIi11U

View: https://imgur.com/a/9GIi11U

 

[boju]

Weird

Try install Windows using media creation tool just incase for some silly reason the laptop isn't agreeing with the image.

Check too in the bios sata is set to ahci before applying the image or if you install windows. I don't see how ide/ahci would cause high cpu usage though but check anyway incase it's upsetting something in Windows.

Have you tried to narrow down the process taking so much cpu? Assort both cpu and memory columns highest to lowest so the largest users are brought to top.

 

[wasshup]

Also I notice that the On demand Clock Modulation in HW info is "red" so there is something wrong about it. Temps are fine

https://imgur.com/fMn5r72

View: https://imgur.com/fMn5r72

 

[boju]

There will be quite a bit of cpu usage when installing stuff. How is usage on idle?

An ssd wont reduce cpu usage when cpu needs to process installations.

 

[wasshup]

I'm installing some updates right now and the usage is from 30 to 100.

 

[boju]

That sounds normal to me, isn't it?

 

[wasshup]

Yes kind of. And that 100 % usage is only the peaks. I'll post the idle usage after. But the system feels like something slowing it down. It's weird.

 

[boju]

Check idle %'s and task manager and sort items in the list highest to lowest usages for processes and also memory. All processes using the cpu will be listed there.

 

[wasshup]

OK, the IDLE usage seems to be fine now. After few restarts and long Windows update looks better and it feels to be faster. But this is very strange behavior. There is stlii higher CPU usage when doing some task (installing, updating etc.) but it's not that bat as it was. Last thing I could try is the driver updates or I have the same laptop with same hw configuration so I'll try swap the disks if there's some difference.

 

[boju]

Which Windows are you running and how much ram?

MS updates would take a bit of time to do it's thing until all is up to date.

List of drivers here. Win10 should take care of most drivers if that's what you're running. Chipset drivers is the most critical.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/au/en/aubsd1/product-support/product/latitude-e6430/drivers

 

[wasshup]

Laptop running Windows 7 Pro X64. Image that I installed has integrated updates to november 2018 so it's not too much updates to download. All drivers is up to date and laptop is running much better now. But still it's strage. I'll reinstall same laptop from another user next week so i hope it won't be the same.