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Out-of-control system idle

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Start date Apr 11, 2010
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Can some one give me any ideas why my system is showing 50-70% idle usage for the CPU?

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It's OBE. UPS dropped off my new game machine yesterday. I'm putting the old one out out of it's misery.

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