Reinstalled XPHOME now processor usage 100%?

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Hi all, hope you can help

I have a custom built Pentium D 3.4GHZ Dual Core with 2GB ram. Its a pretty fast machine untill now.
I have done a clean format and XP home install, it was working as fast as what it used to untill till ten mins ago when I installed a temp management driver that was on one of the computer discs. Since then I have uninstalled it as two warnings came up saying cpu temperature is to high push ok to shut down pc. Now the computer runs constantly with its fan on and at 100% CPU USSAGE? It does have a built in tempmoniter in bios but that has just now been reset to default?

Any Ideas?

Regards,

 

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Just an update, have shutdown pc opened the pc cover and left to stand for 5 mins, rebooted up and now cpu ussage is steady on 50% even when everything has been loaded and I have disabled all startup programs, this doesnt seem right to me as its quite a fast pc and even a click on the process tab sends it up to 53%? Any Ideas?

Regards,

 

You could uninstall the temp monitor program/driver to start with.

You might have to have a little patience.

Edit: sorry, just re-read the post and saw that you have uninstalled it.

 

Was just going to say, any other ideas?

Regards

 

system restore to before the install

 

Ah nevermind

 

Nope no Norton, It was coretemp or something like that? After doing that it says
Sytem 50% System Idle Process 48%

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

 

system restore to before you installed it

 

another vote for system restore.

 

It seems to be ok now, but its still running at 50% I guess that will do, If I have problems I'll do a system restore Thanks for the help people!

 

In your last post before you decided to format and reinstall xp you had a gpu or gpu driver issue along with the service pack issue.

Are you downloading the gpu drivers from your gpu manufacturers site or from disk? if its from disk I suspect you have a corrupted driver.

 

Hiya, ermm, from disc. Then checking the website if the model number of the driver I have is the updated version. Then if not, downloading the new driver.

Dave

 

Always download from Ati or Nvidia depending on the type of card you have, so you can be sure you have the latest bug free version.

 

I had a Dell laptop which was running with the fan on all the time.

By pure coincidence (?) it resolved itself after I flashed the BIOS with the latest version...

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx should give you a better idea

 

reason i am voting sys restore is because he said it was running fine after he re-installed windows. Personally i would get it back to that state then anything which was still to be installed then do it one by one and reboot after each install untill i find the culprit (which seems to be this temp driver).

 

See the posters thread from the other day http://www.certforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=37214

As to the heat thing is the heatsink snapped securley into place? is thermal paste applied? has any dust build up been clean out with compressed air?

download real temp what does it say?

 

also check voltages and temps in the BIOS.