System Taking 30% of CPU

[Xariks]

Hey,
So recently, I've recently noticed on Task Manager that System has been hogging a lot of my CPU resources while on idle.

My motherboard drivers and everything should be up to date so I've eliminated that as an issue.
I'm slightly at a loss.

The program that's hogging a lot is called "ntoskrnl.exe" and the description is "NT Kernel & System"

Thanks friends for your time.

 

[Houdtje]

First of all What windows are you running?

 

[Xariks]

I mean... we're in the Windows 10 section of the forum and tags say Windows 10...?

 

[Houdtje]

I mean... we're in the Windows 10 section of the forum and tags say Windows 10...?

Ow Sorry
But i searched some things up and it looks like its something with the interface. The weird thing is that it just isn't in my taskmanager so i think the problem is maybe something wit your current version of windows 10. Would you bother to reinstall windows because that can maybe be a solution.

 

[mjslakeridge]

I just did a Google Search for "ntoskrnl.exe system". It looks like people have been having this problem even on Windows 8. I didn't see any links to Tom's Hardware forum regarding this issue, but it appears on many others.

I don't see this running on my Windows 8 Professional machine, either in processes, details or services. My cpu usage with 4-5 chrome tabs open is between 1-3%.