Hi there, my cpu runs at 100 percent alot of the time when i open internet explorer or some other program. iv done cntrl - alt - del & iv checked the system idle thing & i know thats normal for it to be high, but other than that nothing is running high. but iv noticed inside my pc i dnt seem to have a graphics card. just a wireless card & a lan card. do i need a graphics card or is it something else? thanks for any help given
you do have a graphics card as it is built into the motherboard. no graphics card means you would not be able to see anyrthing on the screen. what is the specs on your pc such as ram(used & free), cpu speed & hard drive capacity(used & free)?
When I had a similar problem, I traced it to the onboard audio. Installing a PCI audio card fix my problem. That might be something to check if you ruled everything else out.
Thanks for your replys, i think it might be my crap hard drive. iv only got a 40gb hhd & i can imagen the buffer bein really low. if i upgrade toa 500gb hhd with a 16mb buffer will this help the pc run smoother? thanks
does your hd have sata ports or have both ide & sata ports as i think that 500 gig is sata not ide? what is the specs on your pc such as ram(used & free), cpu speed & hard drive capacity(used & free)?
When you open task manager and goto the "processes" tab, did you check the box next to "Show Processes from all users"?
my is a ide connection but iv found a 500gb ide hard drive on amazon, ram: 1277424kb total 1.2gb 931400kb available 900mb cpu: 2.0ghz amd hard drive: 38.2gb total 22.8gb free 15.4gb used thanks for helping ddp!
also ddp iv got another problem, iv recently bought a interal mutil card reader, when i shut down the system & put the cable into the usb on the motherboard, i boot up the pc but it hangs at the memory check any idea why this is? it works fine when i plug it in when its loaded into windows, it just wont left my pc boot up when i restart the pc thanks agen
because you still have over 1/2 your drive empty then that is not causing 100% cpu issue. do as killer suggests as that is most likely what is causing the problem(s). is the connector itself for the cardreader a single multi-pin connector or multi single pin connectors? chech in the bios & disable usb boot drive or something like that.
oh right ok, yep i done that, (show processes from all users) but im the only user on this pc, theres no other users. well its a sigle black plug with 9-pin holes 1 bein the 'dead pin', il try what u said & disable usb boot drive. il report back if it works or not thanks ddp & killerbug for helping me with this
well system idle was the highest but iv heard thats normal the only other thing running high was internet explorer. right i disabled the usb boot in bios, the pc booted up but usb's wernt wworking after lol unless i disabled the wrong 1 but i couldnt see anything else relating ot the usb in bios. yh i got a cd but there wasnt any drivers on it, just the manual & the web address, the disk reader works when i plug it in when windows is loaded up, its just when i restart the pc it hangs at the memory check, cant go into bios or skip the check. it just freezes.
you turned the wrong usb off. what windows are you running? what is the make & model# of the computer or motherboard?
also 1 more thing, i have 2 sticks of ram in my pc 1 1gb 3200 ddr & 1 256mb 2700 ddr. iv check what ram is supported on my motherboard & it says ddr 2100. if the ram is different will it affect the performance? thanks
yh in the system status its telling me 1.21gb. so av i gota change the ram to 2100 to get the ram to funtion properly?
no, leave it alone. as it appears you have onboard video then some of your ram is being used for that but that is alright.
alrite so the ram is ok gdgd, iv got athew things wrong with this pc: cpu running high windows updates wont install the card reader problem whats next lol
