I'm working on a friend's PC yesterday that is running at 100% CPU usage when it boots to the desktop. I suggested to come in Safe mode, still 100%, what the...?
I unchecked everything in the startup using "msconfig" and can you believe it's still doing 100%?
Upon looking at the Task Manager, the process seems to be "system" pegging out at 99%. 2nd from bottom of 21 processes running.
Same thing in Safe Mode with 15 processes running, system is 99%!
Very frustrating.
Has anyone seen this before or how to remedy this stuck full throttle CPU?
Specs:
XP Home Edition (legit)
AMD Sempron 3200
512 RAM
Any advice would help!
Thank you,
Del ;-)
I unchecked everything in the startup using "msconfig" and can you believe it's still doing 100%?
Upon looking at the Task Manager, the process seems to be "system" pegging out at 99%. 2nd from bottom of 21 processes running.
Same thing in Safe Mode with 15 processes running, system is 99%!
Very frustrating.
Has anyone seen this before or how to remedy this stuck full throttle CPU?
Specs:
XP Home Edition (legit)
AMD Sempron 3200
512 RAM
Any advice would help!
Thank you,
Del ;-)