Just had a new motherboard fitted under warranty, everything seems fine except that during some applications the CPU usage is running at 98%, i can see the application doing this, is there anyway i can reduce this happening ?

P4 2.8Ghz.

It only happens every now & then, the fan i think starts to work harder also, well i think its the fan.

Thanks

 

So which app is doing it, or is this a competition?

 

FM2006 was doing it last night & also spooler.exe was causing this as well.

 

process explorer from sysinternals

breaks it all down to dlls

 

Speak English fool

 

[hijack]

With your new motherboard, could you keep everything on your hard drive?

[/hijack]

 

What anti virus software do you use, what anti spyware software do you use & are they both up to date?

Download & run HijackThis: http://tinyurl.com/qc4an

Download & run process Explorer as recommended by ChefDude: http://tinyurl.com/74cdg

Before you run these, make sure that you do a full virus & spyware scan.

 

No i went & bought an external hard drive, PC World are doing a 320gb for £100. It does the job

 

Nortons Anti Virus, all upto date.
Ran Spybot a few days ago

Will try the tiny link shortly. Thanks

 

Norton? NORTON?

OK, first of all uninstall Norton completely. Make sure it's all gone as sometimes you have to d/l a special program from Symantec to get rid of all the crap. Next, d/l & install a free 30 day trial of Nod32 from here:
http://www.eset.co.uk/download/index.php

Good grief... Norton!

 

 

So Norton is the devils own work

 

Frankly, it's better to have a virus!

 

Thought norton was a virus?

 

If theres a program thats going to push your CPU past 90% for reason, it will be Noton

BTW spybot is no good on it's own...need Ewido and Adaware too (both free).