Processors constantly 100%

[no-clue]

Hello all,

I'm stuck again...my laptop's performace is constantly on 100%. I cannot figure out what the heck it is. Scary thing is I rebuilt my laptop and even on bare WinXP the performance was still 100%...i'm scared its hardware fault. Can someone shed some light please?

I've attached some screenshot of my task manager.

 

[jp198780]

whats running in the Applications? it could be spyware or something...

 

[Ku-sama]

it might be something to do with its BIOS?

 

[sezerb]

Get into the task manager and click on the processes tab. Which process is using the CPU the most?

 

[Cromewell]

Something is running a resource heavy kernel-mode thread (hence the 52% usage on 'System,' it's most likely a driver)
Try a 'clean boot:' http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310353

 

[Shane]

If you look on the second picture he posted you will notice that Office 2003 is using quite a lot of resources,Have you tried getting rid of the office 2003 one?

 

[elmarcorulz]

If you look on the second picture he posted you will notice that Office 2003 is using quite a lot of resources,Have you tried getting rid of the office 2003 one?

Its not using the cpu though

 

[johnb35]

Try uninstalling the Ohotfix program to see if it takes takes the cpu usage away from the System program....

 

[Shane]

Its not using the cpu though

yeah i know but its using quite some memory too

 

[no-clue]

thanks for the responses guys.... as I said in my first post I completely rebuilt my computer(ie reformatted and reinstalled XP) and even before i installed any drivers, changed settings, installed any programs, just bare bones XP OS the performance was running on 100%. I even reset the bios to default in case it was something in there.