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CPU utilization is contantly high

Last response: in Windows XP
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All of a sudden my computer is as slow as molasses. When it should be idleing, it has a 30%-50% cpu utilization. I reformated/reinstalled windows XP, and that didn't solve the problem. It's a 1gz athlon with 512 meg memory.

Any ideas on what could cause the problem? I'm wondering if it could be hardware related, since the problem appears right after a reinstall.

-PaulJ
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Check the bus master on your ide controller.

Goto>
Control_Panel/System/Device_Manager/IDE/Primary_or_Secondary

The "Current transfer mode" should be one of the DMA's.

Solution: Try reinstalling XP on clean install (eeek)or use "Intel Application Accelerator", I spent >4 hours last night with a minor disaster and I used it to get the CPU utilisation down. I had high CPU utilisation when heaps was happening on the desktop and it was caused by disk usage.

*Do not modify registry settings on XP unless you know a way to restore it.
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