Hi! I have a huge problem with my system that i cannot figure out. The machine is an assembled pc running windows 7. Everything ran fine for the first month. I have an installed gadget to review my quad core's performances, as well as RAM usage, and in the last two days, they both have shot up like crazy...cpu usage on each core was never above 8% even when simultaneously running video editing software with data tranfer between drives, surfing and playing music off of windows media player. Now, without any real usage, all cores show 50 to 60% and often spike to 99%!! RAM usage has also shot up by 35%. The comp has slowed down and i cant figure out a solution...I've done deep virus scans using kaspersky AV 2010, registry clean ups using first cc cleaner, and now Auslogics registry cleaner. I've removed all incompatible softwares as well. PLEASE HELP!!! I 'm stumped.
Help needed!
- Thread starter ryanvaze
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bigrich0086
Active Member
Read Task manager and find the culprit.
slavcho
Member
First try to find a process which uses your CPU 99%. If u don't find the process try scanning with another Antiviruses because some antiviruses cant detect this type of infections OR scan the hard disk from another clean computer. If it finds nothing and the problem countinues i would suggest you to format it.
Thanks for the posts bigrich0086, mtb211 and slavcho!
In task manager, after sorting by cpu usage, i have desktop windows manager using 21000k of memory and fluctuating from 00 to 02 cpu , internet explorer at 40000k and fluctuating between 00 and 07 cpu, another internet explorer at 36000k stuck at 00 cpu, and windows explorer at 30000k stable at 00 cpu.
These are the processes that are consuming resourses on my machine.
Could my problem be power related? I started noticing a slow down while burning a dvd the other day.
I'm running an AMD x4 940
Biostar motherboard 790GX
DDR2 4GB RAM Kingston Hyper X
ATI HD 4350
Seagate 1 TB
In task manager, after sorting by cpu usage, i have desktop windows manager using 21000k of memory and fluctuating from 00 to 02 cpu , internet explorer at 40000k and fluctuating between 00 and 07 cpu, another internet explorer at 36000k stuck at 00 cpu, and windows explorer at 30000k stable at 00 cpu.
These are the processes that are consuming resourses on my machine.
Could my problem be power related? I started noticing a slow down while burning a dvd the other day.
I'm running an AMD x4 940
Biostar motherboard 790GX
DDR2 4GB RAM Kingston Hyper X
ATI HD 4350
Seagate 1 TB
linkin
VIP Member
Please download and run CCleaner. It will help speed up your computer. A defrag would also be of great help.
also do this:
go to start, click run and type "MSCONFIG" (without quotes) and go to the startup tab. disable everything in there except your anti virus. Click apply.
Then go to the "boot" tab. click advanced options. Check the NUMPROC and MAXMEM values. click apply.
Finally, restart the computer. you will notice a huge increase in speed.
The slowdown is when burning DVD's is caused by insufficiant CPU power, and you have a lot of programs eating up CPU time.
also do this:
go to start, click run and type "MSCONFIG" (without quotes) and go to the startup tab. disable everything in there except your anti virus. Click apply.
Then go to the "boot" tab. click advanced options. Check the NUMPROC and MAXMEM values. click apply.
Finally, restart the computer. you will notice a huge increase in speed.
The slowdown is when burning DVD's is caused by insufficiant CPU power, and you have a lot of programs eating up CPU time.
Thanks for the post linkin93.
I used cc cleaner before using Auslogics registry cleaner.
I'm pretty sure its a virus...heur:trojan.win32.generic appears in my kasperky detailed report, and apparently kaspersky cant handle that particular virus. Tried Avast, but it didnt find any virus, so i'm still trying to work it out.
I used cc cleaner before using Auslogics registry cleaner.
I'm pretty sure its a virus...heur:trojan.win32.generic appears in my kasperky detailed report, and apparently kaspersky cant handle that particular virus. Tried Avast, but it didnt find any virus, so i'm still trying to work it out.
Homenet
Member
Restart the computer and press f8 to bring up the boot menu, load up in safe mode and rull a full scan with Kaspersky, hopefull it will be able to take care of the rest.