- Oct 26, 2013
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Retro PIII Experiment Build 100% CPU Issue.
Hello. Long story short, I sold a D-top & a L-top to a older couple. They had a PC that I got their files off of & they gave me their old PC (PIII). I wanted it to tech my 12 year old boys to build, install, & experiment on so they don't mess up their gaming rigs.
My Issue.
Took all the parts out of the old HP case & bought a cheap standard case. I monitored & instructed one son on his first build & reformat (Monday Night). The problem is, its a brand new format of XP & the CPU runs at 100%, 100% of the time. I've never seen this before.
I pulled out the modem & SB live card, no difference. I know the 2 RAM sticks were miss matched, 1 was 100 Mhz the other 133 Mhz so I pulled the 100 Mhz out, no difference. The only thing left is the HD which is just a regular PATA drive, the DVD player, also a PATA drive, the network card, and a TNT 2.
When my son installed XP all devices installed & didn't need any drivers. Now I'm not saying there isn't any better drivers, but windows didn't report any issues. The CPU running at full bore 100% of the time makes doing anything else a real time consuming b!tch.
Anyone have any idea? I'm about to pull the 133 RAM stick & try just the 100 but after that I think I'm stumped. Never seen a brand new install pin the cpu at 100%, 100% of the time.
Edit: Network card does work but like I said, doing anything like just checking for driver updates is a real b!tch when the CPU is pinned at 100%.
Edit again: Also, the Process running at max is one of the svchost.exe.
Hello. Long story short, I sold a D-top & a L-top to a older couple. They had a PC that I got their files off of & they gave me their old PC (PIII). I wanted it to tech my 12 year old boys to build, install, & experiment on so they don't mess up their gaming rigs.
My Issue.
Took all the parts out of the old HP case & bought a cheap standard case. I monitored & instructed one son on his first build & reformat (Monday Night). The problem is, its a brand new format of XP & the CPU runs at 100%, 100% of the time. I've never seen this before.
I pulled out the modem & SB live card, no difference. I know the 2 RAM sticks were miss matched, 1 was 100 Mhz the other 133 Mhz so I pulled the 100 Mhz out, no difference. The only thing left is the HD which is just a regular PATA drive, the DVD player, also a PATA drive, the network card, and a TNT 2.
When my son installed XP all devices installed & didn't need any drivers. Now I'm not saying there isn't any better drivers, but windows didn't report any issues. The CPU running at full bore 100% of the time makes doing anything else a real time consuming b!tch.
Anyone have any idea? I'm about to pull the 133 RAM stick & try just the 100 but after that I think I'm stumped. Never seen a brand new install pin the cpu at 100%, 100% of the time.
Edit: Network card does work but like I said, doing anything like just checking for driver updates is a real b!tch when the CPU is pinned at 100%.
Edit again: Also, the Process running at max is one of the svchost.exe.
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